Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 9 February 2009 | |
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From Chennai, India at 14:29 UTC | |
The Moon passes right to left through the Earth's southern penumbral shadow. | |
Series (and member) | 143 (18 of 73) |
Gamma | -1.0640 |
Magnitude | 0.8994 |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Penumbral | 3:58:49 |
Contacts (UTC) | |
P1 | 12:38:50 |
Greatest | 14:38:16 |
P4 | 16:37:39 |
The Moon moves right to left (west to east) through the constellation Leo |
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on 9 February 2009, the first of four lunar eclipses in 2009, and being the deepest of three penumbral eclipses.[1] It also happened on the Lantern Festival, the first since 20 February 1989. The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 9 February 2009.
This is the second eclipse this season.
First eclipse this season: 26 January 2009 Annular Solar Eclipse
The eclipse was not visible in the East coast of the United States, South America and southernmost Mexico, Western Africa and western Europe. Best visibility was expected over most of Asia, the Western US, Mexico and throughout the Pacific region.[2]
Lunar eclipse series sets from 2006–2009 | ||||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||
Saros # and photo |
Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | Saros # and photo |
Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
113 |
2006 Mar 14 |
penumbral |
1.0211 | 118 |
2006 Sep 7 |
partial |
−0.9262 | |
123 |
2007 Mar 03 |
total |
0.3175 | 128 |
2007 Aug 28 |
total |
−0.2146 | |
133 |
2008 Feb 21 |
total |
−0.3992 | 138 |
2008 Aug 16 |
partial |
0.5646 | |
143 |
2009 Feb 09 |
penumbral |
−1.0640 | 148 |
2009 Aug 06 |
penumbral |
1.3572 | |
Last set | 2005 Apr 24 | Last set | 2005 Oct 17 | |||||
Next set | 2009 Dec 31 | Next set | 2009 Jul 07 |
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 150.
5 February 2000 | 15 February 2018 |
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