A partial

lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth ...

took place on Wednesday, July 28, 1999, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1999.

Visibility

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Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 1999

* A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 31. * An annular solar eclipse on February 16. * A partial lunar eclipse on July 28. * A total solar eclipse on August 11.

Lunar year series

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, ''The half-saros'' This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 126 Saros cycle The saros () is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. ...

Tritos series

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of July 17, 1992 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of June 26, 2010

Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of June 15, 1992 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of September 7, 2006

References

External links

Saros cycle 119

* 1999-07 1999 in science July 1999 events {{lunar-eclipse-stub