June 2048 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	partial
Date:	26 June 2048
Gamma:	0.6796
Magnitude:	0.6388^[1]
Saros Ser:	140
Saros No:	26 of 77^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2048Jun26P
Partiality:	159 minutes 10 seconds
Penumbral:	285 minutes 44 seconds
P1:	23:38:05 (June 25)
U1:	00:41:21 (June 26)
Greatest:	02:00:57
U4:	03:20:30
P4:	04:23:49
Previous:	January 2048
Next:	December 2048

A partial lunar eclipse will take place on June 26, 2048.

Description

The Moon will be strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse lasting 2 hours and 39 minutes, with 63.88% of the Moon in darkness at maximum.

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 147.

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/LEsaros140.html Lunar Saros 140 - Fred Espenak's GSFC Eclipse Canon
3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros