January 2000 lunar eclipse explained

Total Lunar Eclipse
21 January 2000
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Partial from Buenos Aires, 3:20 UTC
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
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align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2Duration (hr:mn:sc)
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 Totality 1:16:59
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 Partial 3:23:19
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 Penumbral 5:18:12
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align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 P1 2:04:26
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 U1 3:01:50
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 U2 4:05:01
align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0Greatest 4:43:31
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 U3 5:22:00
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 U4 6:25:09
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 P4 7:22:38
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The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Sagittarius.
A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday 21 January 2000, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2000.

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2000

Half-Saros cycle

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 131.

See also

References

  1. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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