The rare blue moon 2018 eclipse takes place on Wednesday, January 31, combining three lunar phenomena: a supermoon, a blue moon and a blood moon.
Stunning video timelapse captures the phenomena in as places across the globe in North Carolina, in the United States and Melbourne, Australia.
The whole of the eclipse will be visible in Australia, eastern Asia and parts of Canada, while the west coast of the US is also set to witness the event.
NASA program executive Gordon Johnston said: “For the continental US, the viewing will be best in the West. Set your alarm early and go out and take a look.
“Weather permitting, the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii will have a spectacular view of totality from start to finish.”
Dr Gregory Brown said the eclipse will “definitely not be visible from the UK, not even a partial eclipse”.
But he claimed the optimum time to view the UK’s super blue moon will be around 12.40am, when the moon is at its highest.
NASA has confirmed the moon will orbit 223,068 miles from Earth, rather than the usual 238,855 miles, making it appear up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter in the night sky.
But the star of the show looks set to be a stunning total lunar eclipse – often described as a blood moon because of the way the moon turns a bright coppery red.
NASA will be broadcasting the entire eclipse live online for those who are not able to see it in the night sky.
A BBC meteorologist also explained each lunar event in detail and revealed the best place to see the event.
Simon King said: “So, we’ve got something really cool happening tonight, and it’s a Moon trilogy.
“It’s called a super blue blood moon. So let’s break that down, start off with the ‘super’ part.
“Now, of course, the moon orbits the earth, in an ellipse, so sometimes the moon is close to the earth than other times and we call that the Perigee, and that’s going to happen through Wednesday night.
“So the Moon might appear a bit bigger and brighter than usual. The ‘blue’ part of that saying is that every month we have a full moon, but on some occasions, because of the lunar cycle we have two full Moons. So we call that second one a blue moon, here the phrase, ‘once in a blue moon’ because it’s quite a rare occurrence.
“And then the third thing is the ‘blood moon’. And that is because also on Wednesday night there is a total lunar eclipse, and that is going to make the Moon turn a little bit red.”