July 2019 lunar eclipse

Summary

Partial Lunar Eclipse
July 16, 2019

Near greatest eclipse from Tilehurst, England, 21:30 UTC

This chart shows the right-to-left hourly motion of the Moon through the Earth's shadow.
Series (and member) 139 (22 of 81)
Gamma -0.643
Magnitude 0.6531
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial 2:57:56
Penumbral 5:33:43
Contacts
P1 18:43:53 UTC
U1 20:01:43
Greatest 21:30:44
U4 22:59:39
P4 0:17:36

A partial lunar eclipse occurred on the 16 and 17 July 2019. The Moon was covered 65.31% by the Earth's umbral shadow at maximum eclipse.

This was the last umbral lunar eclipse until May 2021.

Visibility edit

It was visible over most of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and South America.[1]

 
 
Visibility map

Gallery edit

Related eclipses edit

Tzolkinex edit

Tritos edit

Inex edit

Triad edit

Eclipses of 2019 edit

Lunar year series edit

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Date Type
Viewing
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
109 2016 Aug 18
 
Penumbral
 
1.56406 114
 
2017 Feb 11
 
Penumbral
 
−1.02548
119
 
2017 Aug 07
 
Partial
 
0.86690 124
 
2018 Jan 31
 
Total
 
−0.30143
129
 
2018 Jul 27
 
Total
 
0.11681 134
 
2019 Jan 21
 
Total
 
0.36842
139
 
2019 Jul 16
 
Partial
 
−0.64300 144
 
2020 Jan 10
 
Penumbral
 
1.07270
149 2020 Jul 05
 
Penumbral
 
−1.36387
Last set 2016 Sep 16 Last set 2016 Mar 23
Next set 2020 Jun 05 Next set 2020 Nov 30

Saros cycle edit

Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..

Greatest First

The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2199 Nov 02, lasting 102 minutes.[2]
Penumbral Partial Total Central
1658 Dec 09 1947 Jun 03 2073 Aug 17 2109 Sep 09
Last
Central Total Partial Penumbral
2488 Apr 26 2542 May 30 2686 Aug 25 3065 Apr 13
1901–2100
1911 May 13 1929 May 23 1947 Jun 03
           
1965 Jun 14 1983 Jun 25 2001 Jul 05
           
2019 Jul 16 2037 Jul 27 2055 Aug 07
           
2073 Aug 17 2091 Aug 29

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).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146.

11 July 2010 22 July 2028
   

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Lunar eclipse july 2019 timing of all countries". bindassnews.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  2. ^ Listing of Eclipses of cycle 139
  3. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links edit

  • Partial Lunar Eclipse 2019
  • Saros cycle 139
  • Hermit eclipse: 2019-07-16
  • 2019 Jul 16 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC