Early risers will be treated to a total eclipse of the Moon tomorrow morning.

Between 3.35am and 6.51am the Earth's shadow will fall over part of the lunar object, with it fully obscured from 4.42am and 5.44am.

Due to its location in its orbit it will look particularly swollen, earning it the title of 'wolf moon'.

The effect of the eclipse will be that the normally chalk white disk will look dark red as some of the Sun's red light is bent around the edge of the Earth's globe by its atmosphere.

The eclipse will be visible any location where the Moon is above the horizon at the time, including from Africa, the Americas, Europe, Kiribati, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Turkey.

Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are entirely safe to look at without the need to look through any kind of filter.

They occur whenever the Earth passes between the Moon and Sun.