May 2049 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	penumbral
Date:	17 May 2049
Gamma:	-1.1337
Magnitude:	0.7638^[1]
Saros Ser:	112
Saros No:	67 of 72^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2049May17N
Penumbral:	224 minutes 16 seconds
P1:	09:33:02
Greatest:	11:25:06
P4:	13:17:18
Previous:	December 2048
Next:	June 2049

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on May 17, 2049.

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 119.

Tritos series

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of June 17, 2038
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of April 15, 2060

Tzolkinex

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of April 5, 2042
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of June 27, 2056

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/LEsaros112.html Lunar Saros 112 - Fred Espenak's GSFC Eclipse Canon
3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros