September 2025 lunar eclipse

Summary

Total lunar eclipse
September 7-8, 2025

The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Saros (and member) 128 (41 of 71)
Gamma -0.2752
Magnitude 1.3619
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality 1:22:06
Partial 3:29:24
Penumbral 5:26:40
Contacts (UTC)
P1 15:28:21
U1 16:27:02
U2 17:30:41
Greatest 18:11:43
U3 18:52:47
U4 19:56:26
P4 20:55:00

A total lunar eclipse will take place on 7-8 September 2025. The Moon will barely miss the center of the Earth's shadow. It will be the second of two total lunar eclipses. Occurring roughly 3 days before perigee, the Moon will appear larger than usual.

This eclipse is the second of an almost tetrad, with others being 14 Mar 2025 (T), 03 Mar 2026 (T) and 28 Aug 2026 (P).

Visibility edit

It will be completely visible over much of Asia, Australia and eastern Africa, will be seen rising over the rest of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia and New Zealand.

   
 
Visibility map

Related eclipses edit

Eclipses of 2025 edit

Lunar year series edit

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024–2027
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Date Type
Viewing
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
113 2024 Mar 25
 
Penumbral
 
1.06098 118 2024 Sep 18
 
Partial
 
−0.97920
123 2025 Mar 14
 
Total
 
0.34846 128 2025 Sep 07
 
Total
 
−0.27521
133 2026 Mar 03
 
Total
 
−0.37651 138 2026 Aug 28
 
Partial
 
0.49644
143 2027 Feb 20
 
Penumbral
 
−1.04803 148 2027 Aug 17
 
Penumbral
 
1.27974
Last set 2023 May 05 Last set 2023 Oct 28
Next set 2028 Jan 12 Next set 2027 Jul 18

Saros series edit

Lunar saros series 128, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 57 umbral eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 15 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest First
 
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1953 Jul 26, lasting 108 minutes.[1]
Penumbral Partial Total Central
1304 Jun 18 1430 Sep 2 1845 May 21 1899 Jun 23
Last
Central Total Partial Penumbral
2007 Aug 28 2097 May 21 2440 May 17 2566 Aug 2
1901–2100
1917 Jul 4 1935 Jul 16 1953 Jul 26
           
1971 Aug 6 1989 Aug 17 2007 Aug 28
           
2025 Sep 7 2043 Sep 19 2061 Sep 29
           
2079 Oct 10 2097 Oct 21
       

Lunar Saros 128 contains 15 total lunar eclipses between 1845 and 2097 (in years 1845, 1863, 1881, 1899, 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, 2025, 2043, 2061, 2079 and 2097). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Metonic cycle (19 years) edit

This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, September 7, each separated by 19 years:

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

  1. 2006 Mar 14.99 - penumbral (113)
  2. 2025 Mar 14.29 - total (123)
  3. 2044 Mar 13.82 - total (133)
  4. 2063 Mar 14.67- partial (143)
  1. 2006 Sep 07.79 - partial (118)
  2. 2025 Sep 07.76 - total (128)
  3. 2044 Sep 07.47 - partial (138)
  4. 2063 Sep 07.86 - penumbral (148)
 

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).[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135.

September 1, 2016 September 12, 2034
   

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Listing of Eclipses of cycle 128
  2. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links edit