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词条 May 2069 lunar eclipse
释义

  1. Visibility

  2. Related lunar eclipses

      Lunar year series    Metonic series    Saros series    Tritos series    Inex series    Half-Saros cycle 

  3. See also

  4. Notes

  5. External links

  6. References

Total Lunar Eclipse
May 6, 2069

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series (and member) 132 (33 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality 01:24:16
Partial 03:46:11
Penumbral 06:08:07
Contacts
P1 06:03:38 UTC
U1 07:14:38 UTC
U2 08:25:35 UTC
Greatest 09:07:43 UTC
U3 09:49:42 UTC
U4 11:00:49 UTC
P4 12:11:45 UTC

The eclipse occurs in the constellation Libra at the ascending node of the moon's orbit.

A total lunar eclipse will take place on May 6, 2069. The eclipse will be a dark one with the southern tip of the moon passing through the center of the Earth's shadow. This is the first central eclipse of shove Saros series 132.

It is the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2069, the second occurring at the descending node of the moon's orbit will be on October 30th which will also be a central total eclipse.

Visibility

The eclipse will be visible after sunset over Australia and begin before sunset over far eastern Asia, and be seen in the predawn hours over western North and South America.


This simulated view of the earth from the center of the moon during greatest eclipse show where the eclipse will be visible on earth.

The moon will also occult the bright star Alpha Librae as seen from the southern hemisphere a few hours before greatest eclipse.[1]

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar eclipses are related by many different eclipse cycles. The Saros cycle (18 years and 10 days) repeats the most consistently due three coinciding periods, and continue over 70 events (1200+ years). Eclipses are identified by a Saros number and a member index within each series.

The lunar year (354 days) and Metonic cycles (19 years) are short period last only 8 to 10 events. The Metonic cycle is equal to one Saros cycle plus one lunar year, and so the two series progress in parallel.

The Inex cycle (29 years minus 20 days) can last tens of thousands of years, so long that long perturbations in the moon's path must be taken into account for prediction. Also the eclipse qualities are less inconsistent because the moon is at different significantly positions in its elliptical orbit in sequential events. Similarly for the shorter Tritos cycle (10 years and 31 days), repeats less consistently for same reason.

Lunar year series

This eclipse is the third of four lunar year eclipses occurring at the moon's ascending node.

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 set 2067-2070}}

Metonic series

{{Metonic lunar eclipse 2031-2088}}

Saros series

{{Saros 132 summary}}

Tritos series

{{January 2000 lunar eclipse Tritos series}}

Inex series

{{June 2011 lunar eclipse Inex series}}

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 139.

April 30, 2060May 11, 2078

See also

  • List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses

Notes

1. ^Jean Meeus, G. P. Konnen, Occultations of Bright Stars by the Eclipsed Moon, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 17-24 (1974).
2. ^Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

  • NASA: Lunar Eclipses: Past and Future
    • {{LEplot2051 link|2069|May|06|T}}
    • Index to Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses, -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
    • Eclipses: 2001 to 2100{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

References

  • Bao-Lin Liu, Canon of Lunar Eclipses 1500 B.C.-A.D. 3000, 1992
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