September 2042 lunar eclipse explained

Type:	penumbral
Date:	29 September 2042
Gamma:	-1.0261
Magnitude:	0.9528^[1]
Saros Ser:	118
Saros No:	53 of 73^[2]
Cat Year:	2001
Cat No:	LE2042Sep29N
Penumbral:	238 minutes 32 seconds
P1:	08:45:03
Greatest:	10:44:20
P4:	12:43:35
Previous:	April 2042
Next:	October 2042

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on September 29, 2042. Earlier sources compute this as a 0.3% partial eclipse lasting under 12 minutes,^[3] but newer calculations list it as a penumbral eclipse that never enters the umbral shadow.

Related lunar eclipses

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• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of August 19, 2035
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of November 9, 2049

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. Web site: NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses in Saros 118. eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
3. Web site: Extremes of Lunar Eclipse from 1900 to 2100. www.hko.gov.hk.