Get ready for a rare celestial treat this weekend! A total lunar eclipse of a super moon will occur on Sunday evening.
Autumn's first full moon is called a Full Harvest moon, but this time it has also been named a super moon because it will be at its closest point to Earth and will appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than normal.
NASA will be streaming the event. Click here to watch it on Sunday night.
However, this will likely be hard to detect with the naked eye.
Sunday evening's eclipse will begins as a shadow starts to cover part of the moon.
It will almost look like the moon is gone from our view and then the real treat begins!
The moon will appear full again, but it will have a orange or reddish coloring. This "blood moon" should have this hue for a little over an hour.
Then, it will transition back to the shadowed phase before the moon is full and white again. The total lunar eclipse , visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa, west Asia and the east Pacific, will be the result of the Sun, Earth for just over an hour.
The lunar eclipse will begin at 8:11 p.m.
The peak or maximum orange hue will take place at 10:47 p.m.
The orange "blood" hue over the moon will end at 11:25 p.m. and the total eclipse wrapping up at 1:22 a.m.
The last time we witnessed such an event was back in 1982. You won't catch another one until 2033.
Sunday's total lunar eclipse of a super moon will be the last in a string of four total lunar eclipses since April 15, 2014, in a series astronomers call a tetrad.
