The Penumbra is pretty weak, so you probably won't notice when the moon enters it (4:15am). It starts to enter the Umbra at 5:15am, and you should see this as the Earth's shadow taking a dark fuzzy bite out of the Full Moon. At 6:25am the whole Moon is in the Umbra, at which point what you had thought was a dark shadow actually turns out looking blood-red, now that the bright uncovered part of the Moon goes away. Greatest eclipse is at 6:56am, but the Moon doesn't cut straight through the center of the Umbra - you'll probably still notice that one side of the Moon is darker red and the opposite side is lighter. Umbral eclipse ends at 7:24am - but sunrise is at 7:39 and moonset is at 7:45, so that's when our show ends.
In other words, the show starts around 5:15am, but 5:30 or 5:45 would be pretty satisfying time to check in on the progress, too.
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