Blood moon lunar eclipse: This is the best time to watch in every state

(NEXSTAR) – You’ll want to look up Thursday night to catch a glimpse of the blood moon lunar eclipse , which will be visible (at least in part) across all of North America.

At maximum, the full moon will be 96% covered by Earth’s shadow, turning it a spooky shade of red. While it’s just a few percentage points behind a total lunar eclipse, the view will still be pretty impressive. The best time to see it depends on where you live.

The most dramatic time to see the lunar eclipse is when it’s at maximum Thursday night or early Friday morning. That happens at a different time in every time zone:

There’s another phase of the eclipse not listed on the chart above called the penumbral eclipse, which starts about an hour before the partial eclipse begins and ends an hour after the partial eclipse concludes. This phase of the eclipse is more subtle. It happens when the moon moves through the outer part of Earth’s shadow, or its penumbra.

The view gets better as the moon moves into the umbra, or the main part of the Earth’s shadow. That will start at around 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time during the partial eclipse phase.

Finally, when the eclipse is at maximum, nearly all of the moon will be covered by Earth’s shadow, scattering blue light waves and turning the moon red.

Not everyone will get the same view of the eclipse. Those in time zones further east will likely have a better view as the moon will be higher up in the sky.

The sun sets too late in Hawaii and Alaska to really get the best view of the eclipse maximum, but people in both states may be able to catch the tail end of the eclipse if they look to the moon shortly after sunset.