It was seen completely over North and South America, seen rising over Australia, and setting over Western Africa.

Eclipses in 1982 edit

• A total lunar eclipse on January 9.
• A partial solar eclipse on January 25.
• A partial solar eclipse on June 21.
• A total lunar eclipse on July 6.
• A partial solar eclipse on July 20.
• A partial solar eclipse on December 15.
• A total lunar eclipse on December 30.

There are seven eclipses in 1982, the maximum possible, including 4 partial solar eclipses: January 25, July 20, June 21, and December 15.

Lunar year series edit

Saros series edit

Lunar saros series 129, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, containing 71 events, has 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on May 24, 1910, and last will be on September 8, 2090. The longest occurrence of this series was on July 16, 2000 when totality lasted 106 minutes and 24.6 seconds.

It last occurred on June 25, 1964 and will next occur on July 16, 2000.

This is the 36th member of Lunar Saros 129. The previous event was the June 1964 lunar eclipse. The next event is the July 2000 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Inex series edit

The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.

This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly. It is a part of Lunar Inex series 39.

All events in this series listed below and more are total lunar eclipses.

Half-Saros cycle edit

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136.

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

• NASA: Lunar Eclipses: Past and Future
  • 1982 Jul 06 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Index to Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses, -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
    • Eclipses: 1901 to 2000^{[dead link]}
• Total Lunar Eclipse of 1982 July 06 Photo Gallery
  • Photo mideclipse
• Vulcan Eclipse End of Totality July 6, 1982, by Jerry Lodriguss

• Bao-Lin Liu, Canon of Lunar Eclipses 1500 B.C.-A.D. 3000, 1992