A total
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 Sunday 16 July 2000, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2000.
The Moon passed through the very
center of the Earth's shadow. Totality lasted for 106 minutes and 25 seconds, the longest duration since
13 August 1859 (106 minutes and 28 seconds) and 3 May 459 (106 minutes and 32 seconds), and totality of this length won't occur again until 19 August 4753 (106 minutes and 35 seconds). This was the last and longest total lunar eclipse of the 20th century as well as the second longest and last of the second millennium. It was also the eighth longest total lunar eclipse on EclipseWise's Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses which covers the years 3000 BCE to 3000 AD. The longest total lunar eclipse between the years 4000 BCE and 6000 CE took place on 31 May 318. Totality lasted 106 minutes and 36 seconds which is only 11 seconds longer than this one.
Visibility
It was seen completely over Australia, rising over Asia and Eastern Africa, and setting over Western North and South America.
Related eclipses
Eclipses of 2000
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A total lunar eclipse on January 21.
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A partial solar eclipse on February 5.
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A partial solar eclipse on July 1.
* A total lunar eclipse on July 16.
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A partial solar eclipse on July 31.
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A partial solar eclipse on December 25.
Lunar year series
Saros series
It last occurred on
July 6, 1982 and will next occur on
July 27, 2018.
This is the 37th member of
Lunar Saros 129
Saros cycle series 129 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node, repeats every 18 years days.
The 129th lunar saros is associated with Solar Saros 136.
Lunar saros 129 contains 71 member events, with ...
. The previous event was the
July 1982 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, July 6, 1982, the second of three total lunar eclipses in 1982, and the only one that was in the descending node. A dramatic total eclipse lasting 1 hour and 46 minutes plunged the full Moon into deep ...
. The next event is the
July 2018 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node on 27 July 2018. The Moon passed through the center of Earth's shadow in what was the first central lunar eclipse since 15 June 2011. It was also the second total lunar eclipse in 2018 ...
.
Lunar Saros 129
Saros cycle series 129 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node, repeats every 18 years days.
The 129th lunar saros is associated with Solar Saros 136.
Lunar saros 129 contains 71 member events, with ...
contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090.
Solar Saros 136
Saros cycle series 136 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.
This solar saros is linked to Lunar Sa ...
interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
Tritos series
Inex 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 136
Saros cycle series 136 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.
This solar saros is linked to Lunar Sa ...
.
See also
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List of lunar eclipses
There are several lists of lunar eclipses
On the Moon, by the Earth
; Type
* List of central lunar eclipses
* Total penumbral lunar eclipse
; Classification
* List of saros series for lunar eclipses
* Tetrad (astronomy) contains lists of tetrads ...
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List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
A total of 229 lunar eclipses took place in the 20th century: 83 penumbral, 65 partial and 81 total.
See also: Lists of lunar eclipses, List of 19th-century lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
List
Eclipses from 2001 to 200 ...
Notes
External links
Total Lunar Eclipse of 2000 July 16*
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A Report with Photographs ©2000 by Fred Espenak]
Total lunar eclipse 16 July 2000, as seen from Wellington New Zealand
21st-century lunar eclipses, 2000–07
2000–07
2000 in science
July 2000 events
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