If you were awestruck by the New Year's Day super moon, hold onto your pants. On January 31, around midnight, the full moon will not only be super, it will be a blue moon and a blood moon. The blue moon comes as it will be the second full moon in a month. That happens every two and a half years, hence the saying “once in a blue moon”.

But wait, wait - these two celestial events, the blue moon and the super moon, will also coincide with a total lunar eclipse and with Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, sunlight has to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, which scatters the green to violet light more than it scatters the red light. So the Moon appears red - a blood moon.

That's three big Moon moments on one glorious night for skywatchers, and NASA is calling it the “Super Blue Blood Moon”. The best place to see it, according to Space.com, will be in central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia.

The last time all three events lined up this perfectly was more than 150 years ago. According to the Canon of Lunar Eclipses, the last time humans saw a total eclipse of a blue moon was 31 March 1866. The US will miss out on the full spectacle as the eclipse will happen too close to the Moon setting.

You can see where the eclipse will be visible in the graphic below. The Northern hemisphere times can be found here. For Australia, the point of greatest eclipse occurs at around 23:30 AEDT. The totality will last around 1 hour and 16 minutes.

You can call it whatever—a purple moon, a blue red moon or a blood moon—but on 31st Jan, the moon will be a special and you don’t want to miss. Three distinct astronomic events will happen concurrently that night, resulting in what some are referring it as a super blue blood moon eclipse. 

This particular astronomical rarity hasn't occurred for more than 150 years. A super moon, like the one observable on New Year's Day, is the term for when a full moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, appearing bigger and brighter than normal. On Jan. 31, the moon will be full for the second time in a month, a rare occasion—it happens once every two and a half years—known as a blue moon.

To top it off, there will also be a total lunar eclipse. But unlike last year's solar eclipse, this sky-watching event isn't going to be as visible in the continental United States. The best views of the middle-of-the-night eclipse will be in central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia, although Alaska and Hawaii will get a glimpse, too.

For the rest of the U.S., the eclipse will come too close to when the moon sets for the phenomenon to be visible. Because of the very way the light filters through the atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, blue light is ultimately bounced away from the moon, while red light is reflected. The eclipsed moon's reddish color earned it the nickname as blood moon.

Scientifically, Simpson said, the event is pretty meaningless. The moon's orbit is well studied and well understood by scientists. The real impact, she said, is how astronomical events like this get people interested in science.