January 2001 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse
9 January 2001

Totality as viewed from Oria, Italy.

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series (and member)134 (26 of 73)
Gamma0.3720
Magnitude1.1889
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:01:02
Partial3:16:19
Penumbral5:11:02
Contacts (UTC)
P117:45:04
U118:42:27
U219:50:05
Greatest20:20:35
U320:51:07
U421:58:45
P422:56:06

The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Gemini.

A total lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday 9 January 2001, the first of three lunar eclipses in 2001. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour 1 minute and 2 seconds. The Moon was 18.89% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and totality was observed in all of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours 16 minutes and 19 seconds and was visible in parts of north-eastern North America and Australia. It is the only total eclipse of 2001. It was visible over Asia and Western Australia with the Middle East getting mid eclipse at midnight.

Visibility

Eclipses of 2001

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002
Descending node Ascending node
SarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
GammaSarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
1091998 Aug 08
penumbral
1.48761141999 Jan 31
penumbral
−1.0190
1191999 Jul 28
partial
0.7863124
2000 Jan 21
total
−0.2957
1292000 Jul 16
total
0.0302134
2001 Jan 09
total
0.3720
1392001 Jul 05
partial
−0.72871442001 Dec 30
penumbral
1.0732
1492002 Jun 24
penumbral
−1.4440
Last set1998 Sep 06Last set1998 Mar 13
Next set2002 May 26Next set2002 Nov 20

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 141.

4 January 199215 January 2010

See also

References


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