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November 2049 lunar eclipse

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November 2049 lunar eclipse
Penumbral eclipse
The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left
DateNovember 9, 2049
Gamma1.1964
Magnitude−0.3541
Saros cycle117 (54 of 72)
Penumbral226 minutes, 4 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P113:57:32
Greatest15:50:39
P417:43:36

A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Tuesday, November 9, 2049,[1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.3541. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into 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. The Moon's apparent diameter will be near the average diameter because it will occur 7.1 days after perigee (on November 2, 2049, at 14:20 UTC) and 6.8 days before apogee (on November 16, 2049, at 10:10 UTC).[2]

Visibility

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The eclipse will be completely visible over Asia and Australia, seen rising over much of Africa and Europe and setting over the central Pacific Ocean and northwestern North America.[3]

Eclipse details

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Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]

November 9, 2049 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Penumbral Magnitude 0.68206
Umbral Magnitude −0.35405
Gamma 1.19649
Sun Right Ascension 15h00m53.5s
Sun Declination -17°06'00.6"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'08.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 03h00m00.0s
Moon Declination +18°13'14.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'35.1"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'11.8"
ΔT 85.0 s

Eclipse season

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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.

Eclipse season of November 2049
November 9
Descending node (full moon)
November 25
Ascending node (new moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 117
Hybrid solar eclipse
Solar Saros 143
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Eclipses in 2049

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Lunar Saros 117

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Inex

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Triad

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Lunar eclipses of 2049–2052

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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 June 15, 2049 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2049 to 2052
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
112 2049 May 17
Penumbral
−1.1337 117 2049 Nov 09
Penumbral
1.1964
122 2050 May 06
Total
−0.4181 127 2050 Oct 30
Total
0.4435
132 2051 Apr 26
Total
0.3371 137 2051 Oct 19
Total
−0.2542
142 2052 Apr 14
Penumbral
1.0628 147 2052 Oct 08
Partial
−0.9726

Saros 117

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 117, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on April 3, 1094. It contains partial eclipses from June 29, 1238 through September 23, 1382; total eclipses from October 3, 1400 through June 21, 1815; and a second set of partial eclipses from July 2, 1833 through September 5, 1941. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on May 15, 2356.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 35 at 105 minutes, 43 seconds on April 17, 1707. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[6]

Greatest First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1707 Apr 17, lasting 105 minutes, 43 seconds.[7] Penumbral Partial Total Central
1094 Apr 03
1238 Jun 29
1400 Oct 03
1563 Jan 09
Last
Central Total Partial Penumbral
1761 May 18
1815 Jun 21
1941 Sep 05
2356 May 15

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

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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.

Series members between 1886 and 2200
1886 Feb 18
(Saros 102)
1897 Jan 18
(Saros 103)
1951 Aug 17
(Saros 108)
1962 Jul 17
(Saros 109)
1973 Jun 15
(Saros 110)
1984 May 15
(Saros 111)
1995 Apr 15
(Saros 112)
2006 Mar 14
(Saros 113)
2017 Feb 11
(Saros 114)
2028 Jan 12
(Saros 115)
2038 Dec 11
(Saros 116)
2049 Nov 09
(Saros 117)
2060 Oct 09
(Saros 118)
2071 Sep 09
(Saros 119)
2082 Aug 08
(Saros 120)
2093 Jul 08
(Saros 121)
2104 Jun 08
(Saros 122)
2115 May 08
(Saros 123)
2126 Apr 07
(Saros 124)
2137 Mar 07
(Saros 125)
2148 Feb 04
(Saros 126)
2159 Jan 04
(Saros 127)
2169 Dec 04
(Saros 128)
2180 Nov 02
(Saros 129)
2191 Oct 02
(Saros 130)

Half-Saros cycle

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A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed 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 124.

November 4, 2040 November 16, 2058

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "November 9–10, 2049 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2049 Nov 09" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2049 Nov 09". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  5. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses of Saros 117". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  7. ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 117
  8. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
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