| Total eclipse | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | May 30, 2170 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.0174 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.8330 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 133 (35 of 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 101 minutes, 41 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 219 minutes, 22 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 335 minutes, 22 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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← December 2169 November 2170 → | |||||||||||||||||
A totallunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’sdescending node of orbit on Wednesday, May 30, 2170,[1] with an umbralmagnitude of 1.7488. It will be acentral lunar eclipse, in which part of theMoon will pass through thecenter of theEarth's shadow. A lunar eclipse occurs when theMoon moves into theEarth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow. Unlike asolar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on thenight side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon'sshadow is smaller. Occurring about 3.6 days afterperigee (on May 26, 2170, at 10:15 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
This will be the greatest lunar eclipse ofLunar Saros 133 as well as the largest and darkestlunar eclipse of the 22nd century.[3]
The eclipse will be completely visible over central and easternSouth America,western Europe, and much ofAfrica, seen rising over western South America and much ofNorth America and setting overeastern Europe, the western half ofAsia, and westernAustralia.
Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular lunar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Penumbral Magnitude | 2.81880 |
| Umbral Magnitude | 1.83301 |
| Gamma | 0.01743 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 04h28m29.8s |
| Sun Declination | +21°45'15.5" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'47.2" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 16h28m30.9s |
| Moon Declination | -21°44'16.0" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'00.8" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°58'46.3" |
| ΔT | 219.6 s |
This eclipse is part of aneclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by afortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by onesynodic month.
| May 16 Ascending node (new moon) | May 30 Descending node (full moon) | June 14 Ascending node (new moon) |
|---|---|---|
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| Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 121 | Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 133 | Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 159 |
This eclipse is a member of asemester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternatingnodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]
The lunar eclipses onJanuary 24, 2168 (partial),July 20, 2168 (penumbral), andJanuary 13, 2169 (penumbral) occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipses onApril 9, 2172 andOctober 2, 2172 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 2168 to 2172 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
| Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | |
| 118 | 2168 Dec 14 | Penumbral | −1.1945 | 123 | 2169 Jun 09 | Partial | 0.8158 | |
| 128 | 2169 Dec 04 | Partial | −0.5488 | 133 | 2170 May 30 | Total | 0.0174 | |
| 138 | 2170 Nov 23 | Total | 0.1554 | 143 | 2171 May 19 | Partial | −0.7166 | |
| 148 | 2171 Nov 12 | Partial | 0.8584 | 153 | 2172 May 08 | Penumbral | −1.4275 | |
| 158 | 2172 Oct 31 | Penumbral | 1.5197 | |||||
This eclipse is a part ofSaros series 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on May 13, 1557. It contains partial eclipses from August 7, 1683 through December 17, 1899; total eclipses fromDecember 28, 1917 through August 3, 2278; and a second set of partial eclipses from August 14, 2296 through March 11, 2639. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on June 29, 2819.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 35 at 101 minutes, 41 seconds onMay 30, 2170. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’sdescending node of orbit.[6]
| Greatest | First | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on2170 May 30, lasting 101 minutes, 41 seconds.[7] | Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 1557 May 13 | 1683 Aug 07 | 1917 Dec 28 | 2098 Apr 15 | |
| Last | ||||
| Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
| 2224 Jul 01 | 2278 Aug 03 | 2639 Mar 11 | 2819 Jun 29 | |
Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is oneexeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
| Series members 15–36 occur between 1801 and 2200: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 16 | 17 | |||
| 1809 Oct 23 | 1827 Nov 03 | 1845 Nov 14 | |||
| 18 | 19 | 20 | |||
| 1863 Nov 25 | 1881 Dec 05 | 1899 Dec 17 | |||
| 21 | 22 | 23 | |||
| 1917 Dec 28 | 1936 Jan 08 | 1954 Jan 19 | |||
|  |  |  |  |  |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | |||
| 1972 Jan 30 | 1990 Feb 09 | 2008 Feb 21 | |||
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | |||
| 2026 Mar 03 | 2044 Mar 13 | 2062 Mar 25 | |||
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| 30 | 31 | 32 | |||
| 2080 Apr 04 | 2098 Apr 15 | 2116 Apr 27 | |||
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| 33 | 34 | 35 | |||
| 2134 May 08 | 2152 May 18 | 2170 May 30 | |||
| 36 | |||||
| 2188 Jun 09 | |||||
This eclipse is a part of atritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1810 Mar 21 (Saros 100) | 1821 Feb 17 (Saros 101) | 1832 Jan 17 (Saros 102) | 1842 Dec 17 (Saros 103) | ||||||
| 1864 Oct 15 (Saros 105) | 1875 Sep 15 (Saros 106) | 1886 Aug 14 (Saros 107) | 1897 Jul 14 (Saros 108) | 1908 Jun 14 (Saros 109) | |||||
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| 1919 May 15 (Saros 110) | 1930 Apr 13 (Saros 111) | 1941 Mar 13 (Saros 112) | 1952 Feb 11 (Saros 113) | 1963 Jan 09 (Saros 114) | |||||
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| 1973 Dec 10 (Saros 115) | 1984 Nov 08 (Saros 116) | 1995 Oct 08 (Saros 117) | 2006 Sep 07 (Saros 118) | 2017 Aug 07 (Saros 119) | |||||
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| 2028 Jul 06 (Saros 120) | 2039 Jun 06 (Saros 121) | 2050 May 06 (Saros 122) | 2061 Apr 04 (Saros 123) | 2072 Mar 04 (Saros 124) | |||||
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| 2083 Feb 02 (Saros 125) | 2094 Jan 01 (Saros 126) | 2104 Dec 02 (Saros 127) | 2115 Nov 02 (Saros 128) | 2126 Oct 01 (Saros 129) | |||||
| 2137 Aug 30 (Saros 130) | 2148 Jul 31 (Saros 131) | 2159 Jun 30 (Saros 132) | 2170 May 30 (Saros 133) | 2181 Apr 29 (Saros 134) | |||||
| 2192 Mar 28 (Saros 135) | |||||||||
This eclipse is a part of the long periodinex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1823 Jan 26 (Saros 121) | 1852 Jan 07 (Saros 122) | 1880 Dec 16 (Saros 123) | |||
| 1909 Nov 27 (Saros 124) | 1938 Nov 07 (Saros 125) | 1967 Oct 18 (Saros 126) | |||
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| 1996 Sep 27 (Saros 127) | 2025 Sep 07 (Saros 128) | 2054 Aug 18 (Saros 129) | |||
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| 2083 Jul 29 (Saros 130) | 2112 Jul 09 (Saros 131) | 2141 Jun 19 (Saros 132) | |||
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| 2170 May 30 (Saros 133) | 2199 May 10 (Saros 134) | ||||
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (ahalf saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses ofSolar Saros 140.
| May 25, 2161 | June 5, 2179 |
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