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The last #WolfShirtWednesday of January will fall on an auspicious occasion. Skywatchers in the United States and other parts of the world will be treated to an usual combination; the second full moon of January (known as a blue moon), will be a supermoon, appearing 14 percent brighter as it reaches the closest point of its orbit around the Earth. Early in the morning of Jan. 31, the earth’s shadow will eclipse the moon giving a reddish tint to the lunar surface, also known as a blood moon.

This astronomical event is called a Super Blue Blood Moon.

How You Can See It:

Weather permitting, if you’re watching from North America, Alaska or Hawaii you can catch the eclipse before sunrise on Jan. 31.

The best show will be in the west where watchers, starting around 3:48 Pacific Time, can see the whole eclipse from beginning to end. In the Rocky Mountain area the peak of the eclipse will be at about 6:30 MST. If you’re in the Central time zone the best time will be between 6:15 – 6:30 CST. Viewers on the east coast will want to be watching around 6:45 EST. You can find more details in this article by NASA.

If you take an amazing photo of the lunar eclipse and would like to share it with The Mountain, we would love it if you tagged us on social media with #TheMountain. Feel free to send your images to social@themountain.com. Special credit will go to those wearing wolves!