| bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2 | Total Lunar Eclipse April 4, 1996 | ||
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| align=center colspan=2 | Hamois, Belgium | ||
| align=center colspan=2 | The Moon's path through the center of the Earth's shadow. | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | 122 (55 of 75) | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2 | Duration (hr:mn:sc) | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | Totality | 1:25:45 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | Partial | 3:37:08 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | Penumbral | 5:44:43 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0d0e0 colspan=2 | Contacts | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P1 | 21:17:22 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U1 | 22:21:13 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U2 | 23:26:54 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0 | Greatest | 0:09:46 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U3 | 0:52:39 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U4 | 1:58:21 UTC | |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P4 | 3:02:04 UTC |
This was the last central member and 55th overall member of Lunar Saros 122. The previous event was the March 1978 lunar eclipse. The next event was the April 2014 lunar eclipse.
This eclipse was the first of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 27 Sep 1996 (T), 24 Mar 1997 (P) and 16 Sep 1997 (T).
It could be seen completely over Africa, and Europe, seen rising over North and South America, and setting over Western Asia.
This is the second of four lunar year eclipses at the ascending node of the Moon's orbit.
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 hybrid solar eclipses of Solar Saros 129.