| Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 20 November 2002 | |
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 The moon passed (right to left) through the Earth's southern penumbral shadow. | |
| Series (and member) | 116 (57 of 73) |
| Gamma | -1.1126 |
| Magnitude | 0.8600 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Penumbral | 4:24:18 |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | 23:34:28 (11/19) |
| Greatest | 1:46:36 |
| P4 | 3:58:46 |
 The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Taurus. | |
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday 20 November 2002, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2002.
This is the first eclipse this season.
Second eclipse this season: 4 December 2002 Total Solar Eclipse
It is the first of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 2002–2005 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||
| Saros Photo | Date View | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros Photo | Date View | Type Chart | Gamma | |
| 111 | 2002 May 26  | penumbral | 1.1759 | 116 | 2002 Nov 20  | penumbral | −1.1127 | |
121 | 2003 May 16  | total | 0.4123 | 126 | 2003 Nov 09  | total | −0.4319 | |
131 | 2004 May 04  | total | −0.3132 | 136 | 2004 Oct 28  | total | 0.2846 | |
| 141 | 2005 Apr 24  | penumbral | −1.0885 | 146 | 2005 Oct 17  | partial | 0.9796 | |
| Last set | 2002 Jun 24 | Last set | 2001 Dec 30 | |||||
| Next set | 2006 Mar 14 | Next set | 2006 Sep 07 | |||||
It is part of Saros series 116.
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 123.
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