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 Hourly movements of the moon through the Earth's southern penumbral shadow | |||||||||
| Date | 8 November 2060 | ||||||||
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| Gamma | 1.5332 [1] | ||||||||
| Magnitude | -0.9375 [2] | ||||||||
| Saros cycle | 156 (1 of 81 [1] ) | ||||||||
| Penumbral | 43 min [2] | ||||||||
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A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur on November 8, 2060. [2] It will be too small to be visually perceptible.
In the unlikely assumption that it is perceptible, it would be visible over North America and South America, and will be seen rising over Africa and Europe.[ citation needed ]
Lunar Saros series 156, has 81 lunar eclipses. Solar Saros 163 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
This eclipse series will begin in AD 2421 with a partial eclipse at the northern edge of the Earth's shadow. Each successive Saros cycle, the Moon's orbital path is shifted northward with respect to the Earth's shadow, with the first total eclipse occurring in 2565. For the following 469[ citation needed ] years, total eclipses occur, with the first central eclipse being predicted to occur in 2655. The first partial eclipse after this is predicted to occur in the year 3052, and the final partial eclipse of the series will occur in 3142. [3] The total lifetime of the lunar Saros series 131 is 1442.4 years. [4] Solar Saros 138 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
Because of the ⅓ fraction of days in a Saros cycle, the visibility of each eclipse will differ for an observer at a given fixed locale. Solar Saros 163 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. Lunar Saros series 156, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 80 lunar eclipse events including 41 umbral lunar eclipses (14 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 163 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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| 111 | 2056 Jun 27  | penumbral | 116 | 2056 Dec 22  | penumbral | |
| 121 | 2057 Jun 17  | partial | 126 | 2057 Dec 11  | partial | |
| 131 | 2058 Jun 06  | total | 136 | 2058 Nov 30  | total | |
| 141 | 2059 May 27  | partial | 146 | 2059 Nov 19  | partial | |
| 156 | 2060 Nov 08  | penumbral | ||||
This eclipse is the fifth and final of five Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, November 8–9, each separated by 19 years: 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 be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.
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