The shortest total lunar eclipse of the century happens early Saturday.

A live feed can be viewed online, courtesy of NASA and the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles; they feed from their telescope begins at 6 a.m. the morning of Saturday, April 4.

The eclipse, when the moon is fulled encompassed by the Earth’s shadow, will be about five minutes.

The moon will have an eerie red shadow, which is why it is referred to as a “blood moon.”

This is the third of four lunar eclipses spaced six months apart in a series that began April 15, 2014.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon and Earth line up. If they line up perfectly, we can see a total lunar eclipse as the Earth casts its shadow on the moon.

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