| Penumbral eclipse | |||||||||
 The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left | |||||||||
| Date | November 8, 2060 | ||||||||
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| Gamma | 1.5332 | ||||||||
| Magnitude | −0.9356 | ||||||||
| Saros cycle | 156 (1 of 81) | ||||||||
| Penumbral | 43 minutes, 0 seconds | ||||||||
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A penumbrallunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’sascending node of orbit on Monday, November 8, 2060,[1] with an umbralmagnitude of −0.9356. A lunar eclipse occurs when theMoon moves into theEarth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's penumbra. 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. Occurring only about 11 hours afterperigee (on November 7, 2060, at 17:15 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
This eclipse will be too small to be visually perceptible.
The eclipse will be completely visible overNorth andSouth America,West Africa,Europe, and northernRussia.[3]
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Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
| Parameter | Value |
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| Penumbral Magnitude | 0.02860 |
| Umbral Magnitude | −0.93560 |
| Gamma | 1.53318 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 14h56m11.8s |
| Sun Declination | -16°46'13.7" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'08.5" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 02h53m43.2s |
| Moon Declination | +18°13'31.2" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'44.5" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°01'26.6" |
| ΔT | 92.5 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.
| October 9 Ascending node (full moon) | October 24 Descending node (new moon) | November 8 Ascending node (full moon) |
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| Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 118 | Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 144 | Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 156 |
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 penumbral lunar eclipses onFebruary 1, 2056 andJuly 26, 2056 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipses onApril 15, 2060 andOctober 9, 2060 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 2056 to 2060 | ||||||||
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| Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | |
| 111 | 2056 Jun 27 | Penumbral | 1.3769 | 116 | 2056 Dec 22 | Penumbral | −1.1559 | |
| 121 | 2057 Jun 17 | Partial | 0.6167 | 126 | 2057 Dec 11 | Partial | −0.4853 | |
| 131 | 2058 Jun 06 | Total | −0.1181 | 136 | 2058 Nov 30 | Total | 0.2208 | |
| 141 | 2059 May 27 | Partial | −0.9097 | 146 | 2059 Nov 19 | Partial | 0.9004 | |
| 156 | 2060 Nov 08 | Penumbral | 1.5332 | |||||
TheMetonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents aSaros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.
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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.
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| 1809 Oct 23 (Saros 133) | 1820 Sep 22 (Saros 134) | 1831 Aug 23 (Saros 135) | 1842 Jul 22 (Saros 136) | 1853 Jun 21 (Saros 137) | |||||
| 1864 May 21 (Saros 138) | 1875 Apr 20 (Saros 139) | 1886 Mar 20 (Saros 140) | 1897 Feb 17 (Saros 141) | 1908 Jan 18 (Saros 142) | |||||
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| 1918 Dec 17 (Saros 143) | 1929 Nov 17 (Saros 144) | 1940 Oct 16 (Saros 145) | 1951 Sep 15 (Saros 146) | 1962 Aug 15 (Saros 147) | |||||
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| 1973 Jul 15 (Saros 148) | 1984 Jun 13 (Saros 149) | ||||||||
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| 2060 Nov 08 (Saros 156) | |||||||||
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