| Partial Lunar Eclipse July 16, 2019 | |
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 Near greatest eclipse from Tilehurst, England, 21:30 UTC | |
 This chart shows the right-to-left hourly motion of the Moon through the Earth's shadow. | |
| Series (and member) | 139 (22 of 81) |
| Gamma | -0.643 |
| Magnitude | 0.6531 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | 2:57:56 |
| Penumbral | 5:33:43 |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | 18:43:53 UTC |
| U1 | 20:01:43 |
| Greatest | 21:30:44 |
| U4 | 22:59:39 |
| P4 | 0:17:36 |
A partial lunar eclipse 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.
It was visible over most of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and South America.[1]
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| Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020 | ||||||||
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| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||
| Saros | Date | Type Viewing |
Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
| 109 | 2016 Aug 18
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Penumbral
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1.56406 | 114
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2017 Feb 11
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Penumbral
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−1.02548 | |
119
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2017 Aug 07
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Partial
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0.86690 | 124
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2018 Jan 31
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Total
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−0.30143 | |
129
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2018 Jul 27
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Total
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0.11681 | 134
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2019 Jan 21
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Total
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0.36842 | |
| 139
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2019 Jul 16
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Partial
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−0.64300 | 144
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2020 Jan 10
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Penumbral
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1.07270 | |
| 149 | 2020 Jul 05
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Penumbral
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−1.36387 | |||||
| Last set | 2016 Sep 16 | Last set | 2016 Mar 23 | |||||
| Next set | 2020 Jun 05 | Next set | 2020 Nov 30 | |||||
Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..
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The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2199 Nov 02, lasting 102 minutes.[2] |
Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 1658 Dec 09 | 1947 Jun 03 | 2073 Aug 17 | 2109 Sep 09 | |
| Last | ||||
| Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
| 2488 Apr 26 | 2542 May 30 | 2686 Aug 25 | 3065 Apr 13 | |
| 1911 May 13 | 1929 May 23 | 1947 Jun 03 | |||
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| 2019 Jul 16 | 2037 Jul 27 | 2055 Aug 07 | |||
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| 2073 Aug 17 | 2091 Aug 29 | ||||
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (ahalf saros).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146.
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