Set your alarm - maybe.
the last total eclipse of the Moon to be fully visible from Britain and Ireland for more than seven years is due to take place overnight on Wednesday.The Moon will start to turn a deep shade of red on Thursday morning. It will begin to grow dim at 12.37am and will become totally eclipsed from 3.01am until 3.51am. Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon, Earth and Sun are exactly in line.
Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: “Make the most of this show. There won’t be another one fully visible until September 28, 2015, and that will be the last until 2029.”
There was a time when 3 in the morning was a reasonable time to go to bed, then there was a time when it was a reasonable time to be getting up to catch some business flight, now it is just a time where I might look out the window as I shuffle across the landing as old men do in the middle of the night.....