March 2045 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	penumbral
Date:	3 March 2045
Gamma:	-1.0274
Magnitude:	0.9623^[1]
Saros Ser:	143
Saros No:	19 of 72^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2045Mar03N
Penumbral:	243 minutes 57 seconds
P1:	05:39:58
Greatest:	07:43:26
P4:	09:43:55
Previous:	September 2044
Next:	August 2045

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on March 3, 2045.

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 150.

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/LEsaros143.html Lunar Saros 143 - Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)
3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros