Tonight's "blood moon" lunar eclipse will most likely put on a show for those residing in the central and western U.S. states.
The April 14 event will mark the first lunar eclipse of 2014 and will be visible in most of North and South America between the hours of 12:53 a.m. EDT 6 a.m. EDT, Space.com reported.
If weather blocks the view of the moon or one lives in a region where the eclipse is not visible a live stream of the phenomenon will be available here.
A cold front that has been creeping its way across the U.S. and Mexico could impose view-obstructing cloudiness, especially on the East coast.
This type of eclipse is called a tetrad; this occurs when the moon is completely covered by the Earth's umbral shadow for four eclipses in a row, as opposed to only partial eclipses that fall in the outer penumbra," ABC News reported. Refracting light that escapes over the Earth's circumference is what causes the tell-tale red glow.
This type of event is extremely rare, and has often been absent for spans of up to 300 years.
"Frequency sort of goes through 585-year cycles," the astrophysicist explains. "So you go through centuries where you don't have any, and centuries where you have a number of them." Fred Espenak, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told ABC.
The next tetrad is expected to begin in the year 2032.
Despite the possible cloudiness, North America will align perfectly with the shadow, allowing for a better view than almost every other part of the world.
Some believe the event forshadowing of something sinister that is coming up in the future.
"Something is about to change," Pastor John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, wrote in his book on the subject, ABC reported.
"God uses the sun, moon and stars to send signals to us on the earth," he said.
