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 ...
occurred on the 16 and 17 July 2019. The Moon was covered 65.31% by the Earth's umbral shadow at maximum eclipse.
This was the last umbral lunar eclipse until
May 2021
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Visibility
It was visible over most of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and South America.
Gallery
File:Partial Lunar Eclipse of July, 2019.jpg, Hefei, China
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, 19:56 UTC
File:Lunar eclipse July 2019 Mariupol.jpg, Mariupol, Ukraine, 20:25 UTC
File:Лунное затмение 17 июля 2019 года в Ташкенте.jpg, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 21:05 UTC
File:Partial lunar eclipse 17.07.2019 in Moscow.jpg, Moscow, Russia, 21:11 UTC
File:20190716 231713mod3c97.jpg, Novate Milanese
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, Italy, 21:17 UTC
File:Gerhana Bulan Juli 2019.jpg, Bandung, Indonesia, 21:20 UTC
File:Partial lunar eclipse (48302834592).jpg, Farasan Island, Saudi Arabia, 21:25 UTC
File:Phase maximale de l'éclipse de Lune du 16 juillet 2019, vue depuis Paris.jpg, Paris, France, 21:27 UTC
File:Maximum phase of Partial Lunar Eclipse seen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.jpg, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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File:Mondfinsternis.16.Juli.2019.Muenchen.jpg, Munich, Germany, 21:36 UTC
File:Maximum phase of Partial Lunar Eclipse, July 2019, Prague.jpg, Prague, Czech Republic, 21:39 UTC
File:Partial Lunar eclipse of 2019 July 16 as seen from Gonnet (3).jpg, Manuel B. Gonnet
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, Argentina, 21:43 UTC
File:Partial Lunar Eclipse (48310605247).jpg, London, England, 21:47 UTC
File:Éclipse partielle de la lune, Sayada, 16 juillet 2019 Maximum.jpg, Sayada, Tunisia, 21:55 UTC
File:Lunar Eclipse 16 July 2019 zfk.jpg, Virovitica, Croatia, 22:12 UTC
File:Partial Lunar Eclipse 2019-07-17, At Moonset, Banjarmasin Indonesia.jpg, Banjarmasin, Indonesia, Near Moonset, 22:17 UTC
File:Lunar eclipse (48301723437).jpg, Krško, Slovenia, 22:19 UTC
File:Lunar eclipse 2019-07-16 Szanda.jpg, Szanda, Hungary, 22:23 UTC
File:Partial Lunar Eclipse July 2019 seen from Wroclaw Poland P01.jpg, Wrocław, Poland, 22:27 UTC
File:Moon eclipse july 2019 Logroño (Spain) 1.jpg, Logroño, Spain, 22:32 UTC
Related eclipses
Tzolkinex
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of 4 June 2012
* Followed:
Lunar eclipse of 28 August 2026
Tritos
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of 16 August 2008
* Followed:
Lunar eclipse of 15 June 2030
Inex
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of 6 August 1990
* Followed:
Lunar eclipse of 26 June 2048
Triad
* Preceded:
Lunar eclipse of 14 September 1932
* Followed: Lunar eclipse of 17 May 2106
Eclipses of 2019
*
A partial solar eclipse on 6 January.
*
A total lunar eclipse on 21 January.
*
A total solar eclipse on 2 July.
* A partial lunar eclipse on 16 July.
*
An annular solar eclipse on 26 December.
Lunar year series
Saros cycle
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 146.
See also
*
List of lunar eclipses and
List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
References
External links
Partial Lunar Eclipse 2019Saros cycle 139Hermit eclipse: 2019-07-16*
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