Look for the super blood moon Sunday night

Conditons are expected to be ideal for Central Minnesota stargazers on Sunday night to watch a supermoon and total lunar eclipse at the same time.

When a full moon occurs at the perigee, or closest point to Earth, we call it a supermoon.

September 27, 2015, marks a special date in the astronomy world, a super lunar eclipse!

The effect of a Supermoon to a moon in regular orbit might not be as much as you think, he said.

The regular full moon compares to a supermoon in the same way that “a 16.0 inch pizza is to a 16.1 inch pizza, ” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote previous year on Twitter.

The rare celestial events haven’t occurred together since 1982 and that won’t happen again until 2033, according to the Denver Post.

The action begins just after 8 o’clock Sunday night. The partial eclipse will begin at 9:07 p.m. EDT, as the moon passes directly into Earth’s shadow.

NASA made a great video explanation for what makes this astronomical event, which labeled the event “very rare”. Astronomers say earth won’t see another for 18 years.

A Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. As a result, the moon will appear 10-14 percent larger.

The orbit of the Moon is not a ideal circle, so sometimes it is closer to Earth than at other times. The total eclipse will start at 10:11 pm EDT (7:11 pm PDT) Sunday evening and will last one hour and 12 minutes.

Nichols also explains that the term “blood moon” is not a scientific term and has to do with “doomsday” prophecies from various conspiracy sources. “And during the total phase of the eclipse, the moon will take on a dark red, blood red or brownish red colour”.

In the United States, the Eastern time zone could be the best place to see the eclipse, but stormy skies could spoil that.