A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday 20 November 2002, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2002.

Visibility

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Eclipse season An eclipse season is the period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Moon's tilted orbital plane ( tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane), just as Earth's we ...

This is the first eclipse this season. Second eclipse this season: 4 December 2002 Total Solar Eclipse

Eclipses of 2002

* A penumbral lunar eclipse on 26 May. * An annular solar eclipse on 10 June. * A penumbral lunar eclipse on 24 June. * A penumbral lunar eclipse on 20 November. * A total solar eclipse on 4 December. It is the first of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.

Saros series

It is part of Saros series 116.

Metonic series

* First eclipse: 20 November 2002. * Second eclipse: 19 November 2021. * Third eclipse: 18 November 2040. * Fourth eclipse: 19 November 2059. * Fifth eclipse: 19 November 2078.

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 partial solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 123 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. On ...

Tritos series

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 21 December 1991 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of 18 October 2013

Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 8 October 1995 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of 31 December 2009

References

External links

Saros cycle 116
* 2002-11 2002 in science {{lunar-eclipse-stub