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January 2020 lunar eclipse

Penumbral eclipse

Near greatest eclipse in Austria, 19:10 UT

Date

10 January 2020

Gamma

1.0726

Magnitude

0.8956

Saros cycle

114 (16 of 71)

Penumbral

244 minutes, 34 seconds

Contacts (UTC)
P1	17:07:45
Greatest	19:09:59
P4	21:12:19

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A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on 10 January 2020. It was the first of four penumbral lunar eclipses in 2020. The moon’s apparent diameter was larger than average because occurred only 3 days before perigee (Perigee on 13 January 2020) and its distance was 375,887 km (233,565 mi).

Visibility


Visibility map

Gallery

Oria, Italy, 18:09 UTC
San Jose del Monte, Philippines, 18:47 UTC
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19:03 UTC
Ham, Belgium, 19:08 UTC
Tilehurst, England, 19:10 UTC
Mosul, Iraq, 19:29 UTC
Pamplona, Spain, 20:19 UTC
Eclipse sequence from Austria, 18:10–20:10 UTC

Related eclipses

Triad

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 12 March 1933
Followed: Lunar eclipse of 11 November 2106

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	2016 Aug 18	Penumbral	1.56406	114	2017 Feb 11	Penumbral	−1.02548
119	2017 Aug 07	Partial	0.86690	124	2018 Jan 31	Total	−0.30143
129	2018 Jul 27	Total	0.11681	134	2019 Jan 21	Total	0.36842
139	2019 Jul 16	Partial	−0.64300	144	2020 Jan 10	Penumbral	1.07270
149	2020 Jul 05	Penumbral	−1.36387

Last set	2016 Sep 16			Last set	2016 Mar 23

Next set	2020 Jun 05			Next set	2020 Nov 30

Saros series

It is part of Saros cycle 144.

Half-Saros cycle

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 151.