July 2000 lunar eclipse

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Total Lunar Eclipse
16 July 2000
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The Moon's path through the Earth's shadow.
Gamma 0.0302
Magnitude 1.7684
Series (and member) 129 (37 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:46:25
Partial3:56:02
Penumbral6:14:31
Contacts (UTC)
P110:48:22
U111:57:35
U213:02:23
Greatest13:55:35
U314:48:47
U415:53:55
P417:02:46
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The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Sagittarius of its orbit.

A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 16 July 2000, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2000.

Contents

The Moon passed through the very center of the Earth's shadow. Totality lasted for 106 minutes and 25 seconds, the longest duration since 13 August 1859 (106 minutes and 28 seconds) and 3 May 459 (106 minutes and 32 seconds), and totality of this length won't occur again until 19 August 4753 (106 minutes and 35 seconds). This was the last and longest total lunar eclipse of the 20th century as well as the second longest and last of the second millennium. It was also the eighth longest total lunar eclipse on EclipseWise's Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses which covers the years 3000 BCE to 3000 AD. The longest total lunar eclipse between the years 4000 BCE and 6000 CE took place on 31 May 318. Totality lasted 106 minutes and 36 seconds which is only 11 seconds longer than this one. [1]

Visibility

It was seen completely over Australia, rising over Asia and Eastern Africa, and setting over Western North and South America.

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Eclipses of 2000

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002
Descending node Ascending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
GammaSarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
109 1998 Aug 08
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penumbral
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1.4876114 1999 Jan 31
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penumbral
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−1.0190
119 1999 Jul 28
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partial
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0.7863124
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2000 Jan 21
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total
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−0.2957
129 2000 Jul 16
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total
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0.0302134
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2001 Jan 09
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total
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0.3720
139 2001 Jul 05
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partial
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−0.7287144 2001 Dec 30
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penumbral
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1.0732
149 2002 Jun 24
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penumbral
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−1.4440
Last set 1998 Sep 06 Last set 1998 Mar 13
Next set 2002 May 26 Next set 2002 Nov 20

Saros series

Lunar saros series 129, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, containing 71 events, has 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on May 24, 1910, and last will be on September 8, 2090. The longest occurrence of this series was on July 16, 2000 when totality lasted 106 minutes and 24.6 seconds.

GreatestFirst
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The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 2000 Jul 16, lasting 106 minutes.
PenumbralPartialTotalCentral
1351 Jun 101513 Sep 15 1910 May 24 1946 Jun 14
Last
CentralTotalPartialPenumbral
2036 Aug 7 2090 Sep 8 2469 Apr 262613 Jul 24
1901–2100
1910 May 24 1928 Jun 3 1946 Jun 14
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1964 Jun 25 1982 Jul 6 2000 Jul 16
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2018 Jul 27 2036 Aug 7 2054 Aug 18
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2072 Aug 28 2090 Sep 8
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It last occurred on 6 July 1982 and will next occur on 27 July 2018.

This is the 37th member of Lunar Saros 129. The previous event was the July 1982 lunar eclipse. The next event is the July 2018 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Tritos series

The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.

This series produces 23 total eclipses between June 22, 1880 and August 9, 2120.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)
Ascending node Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
chart
SarosDate
Viewing
Type
chart
120 1902 Apr 22
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Total
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121 1913 Mar 22
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Total
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122 1924 Feb 20
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Total
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123 1935 Jan 19
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Total
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124 1945 Dec 19
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Total
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125 1956 Nov 18
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Total
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126 1967 Oct 18
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Total
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127 1978 Sep 16
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Total
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128 1989 Aug 17
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Total
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129 2000 Jul 16
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Total
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130 2011 Jun 15
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Total
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131 2022 May 16
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Total
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132 2033 Apr 14
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Total
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133 2044 Mar 13
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Total
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134 2055 Feb 11
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Total
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135 2066 Jan 11
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Total
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136 2076 Dec 10
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Total
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137 2087 Nov 10
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Total
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138 2098 Oct 10
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Total
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Inex series

The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.

This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly. It is a part of Lunar Inex series 40.

All events in this series shown (from 1000 to 2500) are central total lunar eclipses.

Inex series from 1000–2500 AD
Descending nodeAscending nodeDescending nodeAscending node
Saros DateSarosDateSarosDateSarosDate
951016 May 24961045 May 3971074 Apr 14981103 Mar 25
991132 Mar 31001161 Feb 121011190 Jan 231021219 Jan 2
1031247 Dec 131041276 Nov 231051305 Nov 21061334 Oct 13
1071363 Sep 231081392 Sep 21091421 Aug 131101450 Jul 24
1111479 Jul 4112 1508 Jun 13
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1131537 May 241141566 May 4
1151595 Apr 241161624 Apr 31171653 Mar 141181682 Feb 21
1191711 Feb 31201740 Jan 131211768 Dec 231221797 Dec 4
1231826 Nov 141241855 Oct 251251884 Oct 4126 1913 Sep 15
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127 1942 Aug 26
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128 1971 Aug 6
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129 2000 Jul 16
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130 2029 Jun 26
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131 2058 Jun 6
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132 2087 May 17
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1332116 Apr 271342145 Apr 7
1352174 Mar 181362203 Feb 261372232 Feb 71382261 Jan 17
1392289 Dec 271402318 Dec 91412347 Nov 191422376 Oct 28
1432405 Oct 81442434 Sep 181452463 Aug 29146 2492 Aug 8
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Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). [2] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136.

11 July 1991 22 July 2009
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See also

Notes

  1. EclipseWise – Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses
  2. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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