A blood moon appeared over the United States early this morning for the second time this year.
The total lunar eclipse with a red hue took place when the Earth positioned itself between the sun and the moon.
The full eclipse started at about 6:25 a.m. ET and lasted until about 7:24 a.m. ET.
Before an eclipse in April, North America hadn't seen a total lunar eclipse since 2011, said Andrew Fazekas, a spokesman for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, according to the National Post.
"We've actually had this cosmic dry spell that we've been under that's lasted over two and a half years now," he said in a recent interview.
Bad weather conditions made viewing the blood moon hard for people in some places around the United States.
"Very spectacular," Sydney Observatory astronomer Geoff Wyatt said, according to the Associated Press. "The cloud certainly got in the way, but we've seen it during totality and of course that's always the highlight - to see that lovely, reddish-brown color."
The eclipse is the second in a series known as the tetrad, a rare event that takes place when the moon is covered by the Earth's umbral shadow for four eclipses in a row.
If cloudy skies blocked your view or you simply weren't up yet don't worry. There will be two more chances to catch a blood moon in 2015.
The next lunar eclipse will be on April 4, 2015, according to NASA. The last one will appear on Sept. 28, 2015.
Since it happened right after the perigee, when the moon is closest in its orbit to Earth, this blood moon was about the size of a super moon. It appeared about 5 percent larger than the previous blood moon, which occurred in April.
"The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the U.S.A.," said NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak, according to CNN.
People in Africa, Europe and the Middle East were not be able to see this blood moon.
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