Homes and Property | Home PageLunar eclipse due tonightMark Prigg|Evening Standard13 April 2012Stay awake for long enough tonight and you will witness one of the sky's most amazing natural phenomena - a total lunar eclipse.Visible across Britain, the eclipse is set to begin at 1.05am, with the moon totally eclipsed by 3:30am.Total lunar eclipses happen when the full moon is in line with the Earth and moves into its shadow.The moon will begin to re-emerge from the shadow at 4.44am.During the phases of the eclipse, the moon will take on a brick-red hue as sunlight is refracted by the Earth's atmosphere.MORE ABOUTSpace