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(Top) 1 Visibility 2 Related lunar eclipses 2.1 Lunar year series 2.2 Saros series 2.3 Metonic series 2.4 Half-Saros cycle 2.5 Tritos series 2.6 Tzolkinex 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

May 2031 lunar eclipse

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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's penumbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on May 7, 2031.^[1]

Visibility[edit]

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2031-2034
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
Ascending node			Descending node
112	2031 May 07	Penumbral	117	2031 Oct 30	Penumbral
122	2032 Apr 25	Total	127	2032 Oct 18	Total
132	2033 Apr 14	Total	137	2033 Oct 08	Total
142	2034 Apr 03	Penumbral	147	2034 Sep 28	Partial

Last set	2031 Jun 05		Last set	2030 Dec 09

Next set	2035 Feb 22		Next set	2035 Aug 19

Saros series[edit]

Lunar Saros series 112, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 15 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1490 Jun 02, lasting 100 minutes.^[2]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	859 May 20	985 Aug 03	1364 Mar 18	1436 Apr 30
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1562 Jul 16	1616 Aug 27	2013 Apr 25	2139 Jul 12

There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on Earth.

1901–2100
1905 Feb 19	1923 Mar 3	1941 Mar 13

1959 Mar 24	1977 Apr 04	1995 Apr 15

2013 Apr 25	2031 May 07	2049 May 17

2067 May 28	2085 Jun 08

Metonic series[edit]

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

This series has 9 events centered on May 6th and October 30th: (saros number)

Ascending node	Descending node
2031 May 07.160 - penumbral (112) 2050 May 06.937 - total (122) 2069 May 06.380 - total (132) 2088 May 05.677 - partial (142) 2107 May 07.186 - penumbral (152)	2031 Oct 30.323 - penumbral (117) 2050 Oct 30.139 - total (127) 2069 Oct 30.148 - total (137) 2088 Oct 30.125 - partial (147)

Half-Saros cycle[edit]

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 119.