July 2046 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	partial
Date:	18 July 2046
Gamma:	-0.8691
Magnitude:	0.2461^[1]
Saros Ser:	120
Saros No:	59 of 83^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2046Jul18P
Partiality:	114 minutes 35 seconds
Penumbral:	298 minutes 8 seconds
P1:	22:35:30 (July 17)
U1:	00:07:13 (July 18)
Greatest:	01:04:35
U4:	02:01:48
P4:	03:33:38
Previous:	January 2046
Next:	January 2047

A partial lunar eclipse will take place on July 18, 2046.

Related lunar eclipses

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 127.

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses

Notes and References

1. For a partial or total lunar eclipse, this value denotes the umbral magnitude. For a penumbral lunar eclipse, this denotes the penumbral magnitude.
2. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros120.html Lunar Saros 120 - Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)
3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros