A lunar eclipse is predicted for the wee early hours of January 31st (or the middle of the night on the 30th, depending on your point of view.) See this link for details:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-january-31
Besides being in eclipse, this will also be the second full moon in the same calendar month, which astronomers call a "blue moon" —although it will actually appear red due to the eclipse! www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/blue-moon.html
Watching an Eclipse
Winkie and Blinkie sat up one night,
To see an eclipse of the moon;
But Winkie, he winked,
And Blinkie, he blinked.
And they said, "If it don't come soon"--
Then suddenly out o'er a isty sea,
They sailed in a star balloon;
And losing the track,
They never came back,
Till a voice cried, "Children, 'tis noon!"
—Mrs. J.T. Greenleaf, Good Housekeeping, Sept. 1893.
Click on the link to read an account of a lunar eclipse on January 28, 1888: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1897Obs....20..207L
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