Look Up! A Late Night Show In The Sky Will Feature Blood Moon

BLOOMFIELD HILLS (CBS DETROIT) - It should be quite a show in the night sky on Sunday as the Supermoon undergoes an eclipse.

Astronomer Mike Narlock at the Cranbrook Institute of Science says the Supermoon is when a Full Moon happens at the same time it's closest to the earth ... making it appear larger. There will also be a total lunar eclipse.

To celebrate, Cranbrook is hosting an eclipse watch party but there's more says Narlock.

"It's kind of cool, it's an exhibit on bats - we have vampire bats in the exhibit and then we are going to have a blood moon - which is what people call the total eclipse when it happens because they sometimes call it the blood moon because it appears red. So, you have vampire bats and the blood moon."

Narlock describes the total lunar eclipse as when "the moon passes through the earth's shadow - so the moon is actually going to appear to turn blood red - because the shadow of the earth is not dark (like our shadows on the earth) it's actually a reddish color."

The party runs from 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. - the observatory will be open - there will be six telescopes outside, along with a chance to see the vampire bats.

Pre-registration closes at 5 p.m. on September 25, 2015.

Narlock says prime sky watching on Sunday will be from 9 p.m. until midnight.

According to NASA there have been five Supermoon events since 1900 (in 1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982) and the sixth will occur on Sunday.