--- title: Watch the 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat description: Due to cloud cover over much of North America, many people, particularly on the east coast, didn't get a chance to see the blood moon Tuesday morning. Don't worry though, we've got a time lapse of the event for you right here. canonical: https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-15T12:34:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:18:40.433Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat og:description: Due to cloud cover over much of North America, many people, particularly on the east coast, didn't get a chance to see the blood moon Tuesday morning. Don't worry though, we've got a time lapse of the event for you right here. og:url: https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c5dd7122d981c53/69868ab3f983e7594b04d4e7/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Blood moon lunar eclipse og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat twitter:description: Due to cloud cover over much of North America, many people, particularly on the east coast, didn't get a chance to see the blood moon Tuesday morning. Don't worry though, we've got a time lapse of the event for you right here. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c5dd7122d981c53/69868ab3f983e7594b04d4e7/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Apr 15, 2014 12:34 PM CUT  Getty Images (25); Gif by Mia Tramz/TIME by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Apr 15, 2014 12:34 PM CUT Millions of people were greeted last night with a strange celestial sighting, the [“blood moon”](http://time.com/62125/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-cosmic-jaguar/ "undefined") lunar eclipse. The phenomenon occurs when the moon passes into the earth’s shadow and, for about an hour, takes on a reddish hue from the sunlight being refracted around the earth’s horizon. Due to cloud cover over much of North America, many people, particularly on the east coast, didn’t get a chance to see the blood moon Tuesday morning. Don’t worry though, we’ve got a time lapse of the event for you right here. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/"},"headline":"Watch the 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat","datePublished":"2014-04-15T12:34:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:18:40.433Z","description":"Due to cloud cover over much of North America, many people, particularly on the east coast, didn't get a chance to see the blood moon Tuesday morning. Don't worry though, we've got a time lapse of the event for you right here.","url":"https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/","keywords":["Space","astronomy","Science topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c5dd7122d981c53/69868ab3f983e7594b04d4e7/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c5dd7122d981c53/69868ab3f983e7594b04d4e7/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Blood moon lunar eclipse","caption":"Blood moon lunar eclipse","creditText":"Getty Images (25); Gif by Mia Tramz/TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/63235/watch-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/","name":"Watch the 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat"}}]}] ```