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A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. [ 1 ] Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth's orbit.
May 2022 lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse occurred on 15–16 May 2022, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2022. [1] The event occurred near lunar perigee; as a result, this event was referred to some in media coverage as a "super flower blood moon" [Note 1][2][3][4] and elsewhere as a "super blood moon", [5][6][7] a supermoon that ...
September 17, 2024 at 10:44 AM. Tonight's full moon will again be a supermoon that will shine for three full days — and give way to a partial eclipse. The harvest moon is different from all ...
The partial eclipse will last for 3 hours and 39 minutes 32 seconds in total. The moon will pass through the center of the Earth's shadow. Totality will last 101 minutes 53 seconds, the maximum duration for Saros series 130. With an umbral eclipse magnitude of 1.84362, this is the largest lunar eclipse of the 21st century. Gamma has a value of ...
September 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM. The next full moon will again be a supermoon that will shine for three full days — and a partial lunar eclipse. Septermber’s harvest moon is Sept. 18. The ...
An eclipse season is the only time when the Sun (from the perspective of the Earth) is close enough to one of the Moon's nodes to allow an eclipse to occur. During the season, whenever there is a full moon a lunar eclipse may occur and whenever there is a new moon a solar eclipse may occur. If the Sun is close enough to a node, then a "full ...
September 18, 2024 at 11:27 AM. Tuesday's full moon was a supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse. The full moon - this month called the harvest moon - was expected to peak at 10:34 p.m. last night ...
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred on Friday, 5 May 2023, the first of two lunar eclipses in 2023. The moon's apparent diameter was 0.1% larger than average since it occurred 5.5 days before perigee (Perigee on 11 May 2023). This was the deepest penumbral eclipse (with –0.0457 magnitude) since February 2017 and until September 2042.