October 2050 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	total
Date:	30 October 2050
Gamma:	0.4435
Magnitude:	1.0538^[1]
Saros Ser:	127
Saros No:	44 of 72^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2050Oct30T
Totality:	34 minutes 30 seconds
Partiality:	192 minutes 51 seconds
Penumbral:	313 minutes 8 seconds
P1:	00:43:40
U1:	01:43:45
U2:	03:02:56
Greatest:	03:20:12
U3:	03:37:26
U4:	04:56:37
P4:	05:56:48
Previous:	May 2050
Next:	April 2051

A total lunar eclipse will take place on October 30, 2050.

This will be the second lunar eclipse in the 2050–2051 tetrad. Taking place near perigee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.

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 134.

Saros series

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/LEsaros127.html Lunar Saros 127 - Fred Espenak's GSFC Eclipse Canon
3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros