How and when to watch tonight’s blood moon

Sky-gazers are in for a rare treat tonight — a total lunar eclipse which turns the moon blood red.

The total eclipse will last from 9.16pm to 10.41 pm.

Astrophysicist at Swinburne University, Dr Sara Webb, says it’s the second total lunar eclipse this year, and it’s been 431 years since that last happened.

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