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 3 March 2007, the first of two eclipses in 2007. The moon entered the
penumbral shadow at 20:18
UTC, and the
umbral shadow at 21:30 UTC. The total phase lasted between 22:44 UTC and 23:58 UTC with a distinctive brick-red shade (L=3 to L=4 on the
Danjon scale). The moon left the umbra shadow at 01:11 UTC and left the penumbra shadow at 02:24 UTC 2007-03-04. The
second lunar eclipse of 2007 occurred on 28 August.
Eclipse Season
This is the first eclipse this season.
Second eclipse this season:
19 March 2007 Partial Solar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses
The
previous lunar eclipse on 7 September 2006 was partial.
This eclipse is the first of two lunar eclipses to occur in 2007, the second being on
28 August 2007. The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Total Lunar Eclipse of 3 March 2007.
Penumbral Magnitude = 2.31882
Umbral Magnitude = 1.23280
Gamma = 0.31749
Greatest Eclipse = 03 Mar 2007 23:20:53.5 UTC (23:21:58.7 TD)
Sun right ascension = 22 hours, 57 minutes, 19.2 seconds
Sun declination = 6 degrees, 40 minutes, 46.3 seconds south of Celestial Equator
Sun diameter = 1936.0 arcseconds
Moon right ascension = 10 hours, 57 minutes, 52.2 seconds
Moon declination = 6 degrees, 56 minutes, 0.7 seconds north of Celestial Equator
Moon diameter = 1782.6 arcseconds
Earth's shadow right ascension = 10 hours, 57 minutes, 19.2 seconds
Earth's shadow declination = 6 degrees, 40 minutes, 46.3 seconds north of Celestial Equator
Totality duration = 1 hour, 13 minutes, 21.3 seconds
Umbral duration = 3 hours, 41 minutes, 5.6 seconds
Total duration = 6 hours, 5 minutes, 31.3 seconds
Viewing
The whole event was visible from
Europe,
Africa, parts of
South America, and some areas of
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
,
Asia, and
Western Australia. In North America, part of the event was visible at moonrise.
Map
Relation to other lunar eclipses
Eclipses of 2007
* A total lunar eclipse on 3 March.
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A partial solar eclipse on 19 March.
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A total lunar eclipse on 28 August.
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A partial solar eclipse on 11 September.
Lunar year series
Metonic cycle (19 years)
Saros series
It last occurred on
20 February 1989 and will next occur on
14 March 2025.
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 130
Saros cycle series 130 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.
This solar saros is linked to Lunar Sar ...
.
Photo gallery
Image:Eclipse070304.JPG, From Kirchberg, St. Gallen, 23:30 UTC
Image:Lunar Eclipse 2007-03-03 23.52pm (RLH).jpg, From Huddersfield, UK, 23:52 UTC
Image:Mondfinsternis 030307.jpg, From Augsburg, Germany
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
, 23:53 UTC
Image:Lunar Eclipse 2007-03-04 00.01am (RLH).jpg, From Huddersfield, UK, 0:01 UTC
Image:Eclipse20070304-2.JPG, From Kirchberg, St. Gallen, 0:15 UTC
Image:LunarEclipse20070303CRH.JPG, From Cambridge, UK
Image:Thomas Knoblauch - Lunar Eclipse small-43img (pd).gif, Timelapse movie in Bülach, Switzerland
Image:ComputerHotline - Lunar eclipse of 2007 March 3 animation (by).gif, Timelapse movie in Belfort, France
Image:Yasmapaz - Eclipse lunar March 3, 2007 (by-sa).jpg, Humacao, Puerto Rico, 07:43 EST
Image:Eclipse as seen from Candelero Arriba, Humacao, Puerto Rico.jpg, Humacao, Puerto Rico, 08:30:16 EST
See also
*
List of lunar eclipses and
List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
Notes
External links
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Hermit eclipse: Total lunar eclipse: March 3, 2007* Photos
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Flickr: Lunar Eclipse 3/3/2007 pictures of the eclipse, many of which
CC-licensed, from
Flickr members
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Live webcast of the total lunar eclipse 3/4 March 2007 by Astronet (The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain)*
Video of the March 3, 2007 eclipse as seen from the UK*
Lunar Eclipse 3/3/2007
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Animated sequence*
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