October 2050 lunar eclipse

Total eclipse

Date

30 October 2050

Gamma

0.4435

Magnitude

1.0538^[1]

Saros cycle

127 (44 of 72^[2])

Totality

34 minutes 30 seconds

Partiality

192 minutes 51 seconds

Penumbral

313 minutes 8 seconds

Contacts (UTC)
P1	00:43:40
U1	01:43:45
U2	03:02:56
Greatest	03:20:12
U3	03:37:26
U4	04:56:37
P4	05:56:48

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A total lunar eclipse will take place on October 30, 2050.

This will be the second lunar eclipse in the 2050–2051 tetrad. Taking place near perigee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2049-2052
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
Ascending node			Descending node
112	2049 May 17	Penumbral	117	2049 Nov 09	Penumbral
122	2050 May 06	Total	127	2050 Oct 30	Total
132	2051 Apr 26	Total	137	2051 Oct 19	Total
142	2052 Apr 14	Penumbral	147	2052 Oct 08	Partial

Last set	2049 Jun 15		Last set	2048 Dec 20

Next set	2053 Aug 29		Next set	2053 Mar 04

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 134.

October 25, 2041	November 5, 2059

Saros series

Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 134 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 occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 102 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1275 Jul 09	1473 Nov 04	1798 May 29	1834 Jun 21
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1960 Sep 05	2068 Nov 09	2429 Jun 17	2555 Sep 02