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September 2024 lunar eclipse
Partial lunar eclipse of September 17th, 2024 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, September 18, 2024,[1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.0869. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring only about 7 hours before perigee (on September 18, 2024, at 09:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. This eclipse also occurred during a supermoon.[2]
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This eclipse was the final partial lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 118.
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Visibility
The eclipse was completely visible over North and South America, west Africa, and western Europe, seen rising over western North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean and setting over east Africa, eastern Europe, and west and central Asia.[3]
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- 33 minutes after Penumbra Phase started, Halifax, Canada, 01:14 UTC
- From Halifax, Canada, 03:00 UTC
- From Halifax, Canada, 02:44 UTC (Maximum)
- End of Partially, Halifax, Canada, 03:11 UTC
- September 2024 Lunar Eclipse from Mexicali, 02:49 UTC, Mexicali, Mexico
- Start of partial eclipse in Moscow, Russia, 02:19 UTC
- From Moscow, 02:45 UTC
- Near sunrise, Moscow, 02:55 UTC
- From Dallas, Texas
- From Logroño, Spain, 02:50 UTC
- 01:46 UTC, Minnesota, USA
- 02:28 UTC, Minnesota, USA
- 02:44 UTC (maximum), Minnesota, USA
- 02:46 UTC, Santa Ana, California, USA
- 02:49 UTC, Norwalk, Ohio, USA
- 03:01 UTC, Minnesota, USA
- 03:16 UTC, Minnesota, USA
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Eclipse details
Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular lunar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
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Related eclipses
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Eclipses in 2024
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 25.
- A total solar eclipse on April 8.
- A partial lunar eclipse on September 18.
- An annular solar eclipse on October 2.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 30, 2020
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 6, 2028
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 7, 2017
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 30, 2031
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 13, 2015
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 23, 2033
Tritos
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 18, 2013
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 19, 2035
Lunar Saros 118
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 7, 2006
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 29, 2042
Inex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 8, 1995
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 29, 2053
Triad
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 18, 1937
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 21, 2111
Lunar eclipses of 2024–2027
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]
The penumbral lunar eclipse on July 18, 2027 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Saros 118
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on March 2, 1105. It contains partial eclipses from June 8, 1267 through August 12, 1375; total eclipses from August 22, 1393 through June 22, 1880; and a second set of partial eclipses from July 3, 1898 through September 18, 2024. The series ends at member 73 as a penumbral eclipse on May 7, 2403.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 37 at 99 minutes, 22 seconds on April 7, 1754. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[6]
Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
Tritos series
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Half-Saros cycle
A lunar eclipse will precede and follow by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 125.
September 13, 2015 | September 23, 2033 |
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