Full ‘Blood Moon’ This Weekend

A Harvest Moon, a Super Moon and a total lunar eclipse all on the same day? Yes!

That’s what will happen this Sunday, Sept. 27. On that evening the full moon will slip completely into the earth’s shadow for 72 minutes, creating a total lunar eclipse.

And since it’ll be the full moon closest to the start of fall, today, Wednesday, Sept. 23, it is known as the Harvest Moon.

But that’s not all. In its monthly elliptical swing around earth, the full moon will make its closest approach to earth for the year that day. Thus, it’ll be a Super Moon.

How close? A mere 221,753 miles.

The total eclipse will start at 10:11 p.m. EDT (7:11 p.m. PDT) Sunday evening and will last one hour and 12 minutes. It will be visible across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific, NASA said.