October 2042 lunar eclipse explained

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse October 28, 2042
align=center colspan=2	The moon will be imperceptibly dim as the moon clips the Earth's northern penumbral shadow
align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0		156 (- of 81)
align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2	Duration (hr:mn:sc)
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0	Penumbral	00:02:00
align=center bgcolor=#a0d0e0 colspan=2
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0	P1	19:32:00
align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0	Greatest	19:33:00
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0	P4	19:34:00

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on October 28, 2042, according to some sources. This will be 0.4 days after the Moon reached perigee (making it a supermoon). This event marks the beginning of lunar saros cycle 156 according to some sources, and will be visually imperceptible and other sources have this as a miss.^[1]

According to some sources, it will be the last of 5 Metonic cycle eclipses occurring every 19 years on October 28, while the other sources calculate the Moon will miss the shadow.

Related lunar eclipses

Metonic series

This eclipse (depending on definitions) is the last of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, October 28–29, each separated by 19 years:

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
• February 1951 lunar eclipse
• August 2016 lunar eclipse

Notes and References

1. http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/gen_stats.cgi?mode=query&page=full&qtype=type&body=L&saros=156 Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 156