Lunar Eclipses: 2000 - 2005

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Here are excerpts from the Press release by NASA posted for your information

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

 

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Press Release

Total Lunar Eclipse: January 20-21, 2000

Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEextra/TLE2000Jan20.html

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Times for the different phases of the eclipse appear in the following table.

Make sure you choose the column for your time zone.

Total Lunar Eclipse of January 20, 2000

Event Time

GMT Time

EST Time

CST Time

MST Time

PST

Partial Eclipse Begins: 03:01 AM* 10:01 PM 09:01 PM 08:01 PM 07:01 PM

Total Eclipse Begins: 04:05 AM* 11:05 PM 10:05 PM 09:05 PM 08:05 PM

Mid-Eclipse: 04:44 AM* 11:44 PM 10:44 PM 09:44 PM 08:44 PM

Total Eclipse Ends: 05:22 AM* 12:22 AM* 11:22 PM 10:22 PM 09:22 PM

Partial Eclipse Ends: 06:25 AM* 01:25 AM* 12:25 AM* 11:25 PM 10:25 PM

* Event occurs on morning of January 21, 2000

GST - Greenwich Mean Time

EST - Eastern Standard Time

CST - Central Standard Time

MST - Mountain Standard Time

PST - Pacific Standard Time

The Umbral Magnitude is the fraction on the Moon's diameter immersed in the

umbra at maximum eclipse. For values greater than 1.0, it is a total eclipse.

For negative values, it is a penumbral eclipse. The Total Duration is the

duration of the total phase (total eclipses only).

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Lunar Eclipses: 2000 - 2005

Date Eclipse

Type Umbral

Magnitude Total

Duration Geographic Region of

Eclipse Visibility

2000 Jan 21 Total 1.330 78m Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa

2000 Jul 16 Total 1.773 108m Asia, Pacific, w Americas

2001 Jan 09 Total 1.195 01h02m e Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia

2001 Jul 05 Partial 0.499 - e Africa, Asia, Aus., Pacific

2001 Dec 30 Penumbral -0.110 - e Asia, Aus., Pacific, Americas

2002 May 26 Penumbral -0.283 - e Asia, Aus., Pacific, w Americas

2002 Jun 24 Penumbral -0.788 - S. America, Europe, Africa, c Asia, Aus.

2002 Nov 20 Penumbral -0.222 - Americas, Europe, Africa, e Asia

2003 May 16 Total 1.134 00h53m c Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa

2003 Nov 09 Total 1.022 00h24m Americas, Europe, Africa, c Asia

2004 May 04 Total 1.309 01h16m S. America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Aus.

2004 Oct 28 Total 1.313 01h21m Americas, Europe, Africa, c Asia

2005 Apr 24 Penumbral -0.139 - e Asia, Aus., Pacific, Americas

2005 Oct 17 Partial 0.068 - Asia, Aus., Pacific, North America

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Geographic abreviations (used above): n = north, s = south, e = east, w =

west, c = central

 

1 Only eclipses where the Moon passes through Earth's umbral shadow are

included in these values. A lesser type of eclipse is the penumbral eclipse

which occurs when the Moon passes through the Earth's faint penumbral shadow.

Penumbral eclipses are rarely discernable to the naked eye and are of lesser

importance than umbral eclipses.