NASA TV broadcast the Super Blue Blood Moon, however, over social media captured the eclipse 2018 in their own impressive video footage.
One social media user sped up the Super Blue Moon event as it passed over the USA on Wednesday.
The lunar eclipse is the first of its kind since 1866, as it appears alongside a blue moon – a second full moon in a calendar month.
BBC meteorologist Simon King explained the phenomenon 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.”
Having crossed the USA, India is another prime location to enjoy the incredible Super Blue Blood Moon and lunar eclipse 2018.
In India, the eclipse will commence at 5:18 pm. The duration of the total lunar eclipse will be 76 minutes and it would start at 6.21 pm today and will be visible till 7.37 pm.
The partial eclipse will end at 8:41 pm. The duration of the total eclipse will be one hour 16 minutes.
The majority of the country will see the lunar eclipse from 4.21pm to 5.18pm IST time.
In the west coast, viewers can see the super blue blood moon between 6.21pm and 7.37pm IST.