Set Your Alarm To See The Infamous Blood Moon Over Colorado

Wish and hope for clear skies over Colorado Thursday night into Friday morning, March 13 and 14. A total lunar eclipse will occur, making the moon appear as a copper-colored "blood moon" as the earth casts a shadow over the entire visible surface of the moon.

A lunar eclipse is when the earth gets between the sun and the moon, as opposed to the more rare solar eclipse, when the moon perfectly passes between the sun and the earth, causing us to be in the shadow rather than see it on something else.

Here's the issue though - you're going to have to get up in the middle of the night to see this one, so if you're hankering for a look at the blood moon, you're going to need to set an alarm. Unless you work the graveyard shift somewhere.

While the earth will start passing between the sun and the moon sometime just before 10 PM on Thursday night, the total lunar eclipse won't occur until roughly 12:30 AM and ending about 1:30 AM. That will be when the eclipse is at its peak.

The good news though - as compared to the more rare and talked about solar eclipse, where the moon passes in front of our view of the sun - this time, the eclipse will be visible with the naked eye and you won't need those eclipse glasses. That's because you're looking at the moon, and not directly at the sun, in case you didn't already figure that out.

Lunar eclipses generally happen a couple times each year, and how "bloody" the blood moon is depends on the amount of particles in the atmosphere, so what tomorrow's looks like remain to witness with your own eyes!