Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images The Blood Moon is seen behind the silhouette of the Glorieta de Las Mujeres que Luchan monument in Mexico City, Mexico prior to the lunar eclipse.

At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, home of the meridian, the partial eclipse started at 10.07am, with the moon appearing to take nibble from the edge of the sun.

A blood moon will appear huge above the morning horizon on Friday as the lunar surface is shadowed by the Earth in a rare lunar eclipse. People living in the west of Britain will see a total eclipse ...