Total Lunar Eclipse June 15, 2011
The moon passes right to left through the earth's shadow
Series (and member)	130 (34 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	01:40:52
Partial	3:39:58
Penumbral	5:39:10
Contacts
P1	17:23:05UTC
U1	18:22:37 UTC
U2	19:22:11 UTC
Greatest	20:12:37 UTC
U3	21:03:22 UTC
U4	22:02:35 UTC
P4	23:02:15 UTC

A total lunar eclipse will take place on June 15, 2011. It is the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the second occuring on December 10.

It is a relatively rare central eclipse where the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility

It will be visible completely over Africa, and Central Asia, visible rising over South America, Western Africa, and Europe, and setting over Eastern Asia, and Australia.

This simulation shows the view of the earth from the moon from the center of the earth at greatest eclipse.

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year (354 days)

This eclipse is the center of five lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (Shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2009–2013
Ascending node					Descending node
Saros # Photo	Date Viewing	Type chart	Gamma		Saros # Photo	Date Viewing	Type chart	Gamma
110	2009 Jul 07	penumbral	−1.4916		115	2009 Dec 31	partial	0.9766
120	2010 Jun 26	partial	−0.7091		125	2010 Dec 21	total	0.3214
130	2011 Jun 15	total	0.0897		135	2011 Dec 10	total	−0.3882
140	2012 Jun 04	partial	0.8248		145	2012 Nov 28	penumbral	−1.0869
150	2013 May 25	penumbral	1.5351
Last set	2009 Aug 06				Last set	2009 Feb 9
Next set	2013 Apr 25				Next set	2013 Oct 18

Saros series

Lunar saros series 130, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 56 umbral lunar eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 14 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 137 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2029 Jun 26, lasting 102 minutes.[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1416 Jun 10	1560 Sep 4	1921 Apr 22	1957 May 13
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2083 Jul 29	2155 Sep 11	2552 May 10	2678 Jul 26

1901–2200

1903 Apr 12		1921 Apr 22		1939 May 3
1957 May 13		1975 May 25		1993 Jun 4
2011 Jun 15		2029 Jun 26		2047 Jul 7
2065 Jul 17		2083 Jul 29

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 39.

All events in this series listed below and more are total lunar eclipses.

Inex series from 1000 to 2500 AD

Ascending node		Descending node		Ascending node		Descending node
Saros	Date	Saros	Date	Saros	Date	Saros	Date
96	1027 Apr 23	97	1056 Apr 2	98	1085 Mar 14	99	1114 Feb 21
100	1143 Feb 1	101	1172 Jan 13	102	1200 Dec 22	103	1229 Dec 2
104	1258 Nov 12	105	1287 Oct 22	106	1316 Oct 2	107	1345 Sep 12
108	1374 Aug 22	109	1403 Aug 2	110	1432 Jul 13	111	1461 Jun 22
112	1490 Jun 2	113	1519 May 14	114	1548 Apr 22	115	1577 Apr 2
116	1606 Mar 24	117	1635 Mar 3	118	1664 Feb 11	119	1693 Jan 22
120	1722 Jan 2	121	1750 Dec 13	122	1779 Nov 23	123	1808 Nov 3
124	1837 Oct 13	125	1866 Sep 24	126	1895 Sep 4	127	1924 Aug 14
128	1953 Jul 26	129	1982 Jul 6	130	2011 Jun 15	131	2040 May 26
132	2069 May 6	133	2098 Apr 15	134	2127 Mar 28	135	2156 Mar 7
136	2185 Feb 14	137	2214 Jan 27	138	2243 Jan 7	139	2271 Dec 17
140	2300 Nov 27	141	2329 Nov 7	142	2358 Oct 18	143	2387 Sep 28
144	2416 Sep 7	145	2445 Aug 17	146	2474 Jul 29