There's a cosmic event happening in the skies tonight and, weather permitting, we'll be viewing it here in the southwest.

Tonight there will be a full lunar eclipse, which means the Earth will line up between the Sun and the Moon, blocking out the Sun's light and casting a shadow on the lunar surface.

Tonight's event is called a Super Blood Wolf Moon. Joan Hodgins is the Secretary of the Wilkinson Memorial Observatory Astronomy Club at Eastend. She explains what a Super Moon is. "A Super Moon is when the moon is closest to Earth. The Super part being, it's within 300,000 miles."

This will make the Moon very bright.

A Blood Moon happens when the bright moon creeps directly through the Earth's shadow, causing it to turn red because of the dust created.

A Wolf Moon, according to The Farmer's Almanac, comes from Indigenous culture, as the Moon appeared when wolves howled outside villages.

The Eclipse will begin tonight around 9:12 p.m. and will finish at about 1 a.m. on January 21st.

Unlike a solar eclipse, it is completely safe to watch a lunar eclipse with the naked eye.