Saturday’s lunar eclipse is a blood moon. The moon on this day will gradually wander into earth’s shadow and the shadow will completely cover the moon and block all its light. The phenomenon will create a total eclipse making the moon to glow red.

The total eclipse will only be visible to people living in the western half of the United States and to people in the Pacific, East Asia, and Oceania. The eclipse will start at 4.58 am Pacific and will last for just five minutes.

On the East Coast, the sun would have risen by that time making the blood moon to be invisible. But then also, Easterners could wake up before sunrise and have a slight look of the partial eclipse started at around 6.16 am.

Experts shared that a lunar eclipse is not like a solar eclipse and can be seen without eye protection. One can watch it without any sort of eye protection, but if one wants to have to a good view of it then one can use binoculars or a telescope.

When the eclipse will start the parts of the moon will start to pass through the penumbra and the moon will be bit dimmer than usual. At 6:16 am ET, parts of the moon will enter the umbra, looking like a dark bite out of already dimmer moon.

At 4.58 am PT, the entire moon will start glowing an eerie red rather than usual white. It will happen because the sun, Earth, and moon will be perfectly aligned and the moon in earth’s umbra and will be the total eclipse.

Experts said that the moon will be a total eclipse until 5.03 am PT and will return to being a white sliver.