Loading AI tools
Moon passing through an outer religion of the Earth's shadow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on 20–21 February 2027.
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 20 February 2027 | |
---|---|
The moon will perceptibly dim as it passes through the Earth's southern penumbral shadow | |
Series (and member) | 143 (19 of 73) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Penumbral | 4:00:59 |
Contacts | |
P1 | 21:12:20 UTC |
Greatest | 23:12:51 |
P4 | 1:13:19 |
It will be completely visible over Africa, Europe and western Asia, will be seen rising over most of the Americas, and setting over eastern Asia and western Australia.
Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024–2027 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||
Saros | Date | Type Viewing |
Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
113 |
2024 Mar 25 |
Penumbral |
1.06098 | 118 | 2024 Sep 18 |
Partial |
−0.97920 | |
123 | 2025 Mar 14 |
Total |
0.34846 | 128 | 2025 Sep 07 |
Total |
−0.27521 | |
133 | 2026 Mar 03 |
Total |
−0.37651 | 138 | 2026 Aug 28 |
Partial |
0.49644 | |
143 | 2027 Feb 20 |
Penumbral |
−1.04803 | 148 | 2027 Aug 17 |
Penumbral |
1.27974 | |
Last set | 2023 May 05 | Last set | 2023 Oct 28 | |||||
Next set | 2028 Jan 12 | Next set | 2027 Jul 18 |
It is part of Saros cycle 143.
This is the last of five Metonic lunar eclipses.
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.
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saros | Date | Type | Saros | Date | Type | |
103 | 1951 Feb 21.88 | Penumbral | 108 | 1951 Aug 17.13 | Penumbral | |
113 | 1970 Feb 21.35 | Partial | 118 | 1970 Aug 17.14 | Partial | |
123 | 1989 Feb 20.64 | Total | 128 | 1989 Aug 17.13 | Total | |
133 | 2008 Feb 21.14 | Total | 138 | 2008 Aug 16.88 | Partial | |
143 | 2027 Feb 20.96 | Penumbral | 148 | 2027 Aug 17.30 | Penumbral | |
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 150.
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.