Wednesday night’s super moon – the term for when a full moon comes closest to earth’s orbit and appears oversized in the sky – will coincide with a full lunar eclipse.

The resulting red appearance is called a blood moon and will be visible about 6:11 a.m. Thursday in central and western Oklahoma.

The partial eclipse will start about 4:44 a.m. and at total eclipse the moon will be visible low on the west-southwest horizon, if weather conditions are favorable.

The blood moon, sometimes called the flower blood moon, is the third super moon of this calendar year.

Those on the west coast will have the clearest view in the U.S. of all phases of the lunar eclipse.

On the east coast, the moon will already be below the horizon when in full eclipse, so the only possible view will be the initial penumbral phase, when the earth’s shadow just begins to edge over the moon’s surface.