A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 30 December 2001, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2001.
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 30 December 2001 | |
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Series (and member) | 144 (15 of 71) |
Gamma | 1.0731 |
Magnitude | -0.11 |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Penumbral | 4:03:32 |
Contacts (UTC) | |
P1 | 8:27:35 |
Greatest | 10:29:18 |
P4 | 12:31:07 |
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Gemini. |
At maximum eclipse, 89.477% of the Moon's disc was partially shaded by the Earth, which caused a slight shadow gradient across its disc; this subtle effect may have been visible to careful observers. No part of the Moon was in complete shadow. The eclipse lasted 4 hours, 4 minutes and 17.7 seconds overall. This lunar eclipse followed the Annular Solar Eclipse on 14 December 2001.
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002 | ||||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||
Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | |
109 | 1998 Aug 08 | penumbral | 1.4876 | 114 | 1999 Jan 31 | penumbral | −1.0190 | |
119 | 1999 Jul 28 | partial | 0.7863 | 124 | 2000 Jan 21 | total | −0.2957 | |
129 | 2000 Jul 16 | total | 0.0302 | 134 | 2001 Jan 09 | total | 0.3720 | |
139 | 2001 Jul 05 | partial | −0.7287 | 144 | 2001 Dec 30 | penumbral | 1.0732 | |
149 | 2002 Jun 24 | penumbral | −1.4440 | |||||
Last set | 1998 Sep 06 | Last set | 1998 Mar 13 | |||||
Next set | 2002 May 26 | Next set | 2002 Nov 20 |
Lunar Saros series 144, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 20 total lunar eclipses.
First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 1749 Jul 29
First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2146 Mar 28
First Total Lunar Eclipse: 2308 Jul 04
First Central Lunar Eclipse: 2362 Aug 06
Greatest Eclipse of the Lunar Saros 144: 2416 Sep 07
Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 2488 Oct 20
Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 2651 Jan 28
Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2867 Jun 08
Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 3011 Sep 04
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 151.
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