A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 15, 2049, with an umbral magnitude of −0.6970. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring only about 23.5 hours before perigee (on June 16, 2049, at 18:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.

Visibility

The eclipse will be completely visible over central and east Africa, eastern Europe, much of Asia, Australia, and Antarctica, seen rising over west Africa and western Europe and setting over northeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.

June 15, 2049 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Penumbral Magnitude0.25260
Umbral Magnitude−0.69700
Gamma1.40692
Sun Right Ascension05h38m45.5s
Sun Declination+23°20'31.0"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'44.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension17h38m24.2s
Moon Declination-21°55'02.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'34.9"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax1°00'51.4"
ΔT84.8 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of May–June 2049
May 17 Ascending node (full moon)May 31 Descending node (new moon)June 15 Ascending node (full moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 112Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 138Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 150

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2049

Metonic

Tzolkinex

  • Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 26, 2056

Half-Saros

Tritos

Lunar Saros 150

Inex

Triad

Lunar eclipses of 2049–2052

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

The penumbral lunar eclipses on May 17, 2049 and November 9, 2049 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2046 to 2049
Descending nodeAscending node
SarosDate ViewingType ChartGammaSarosDate ViewingType ChartGamma
1152046 Jan 22Partial0.98851202046 Jul 18Partial−0.8691
1252047 Jan 12Total0.33171302047 Jul 07Total−0.0636
1352048 Jan 01Total−0.37451402048 Jun 26Partial0.6796
1452048 Dec 20Penumbral−1.06241502049 Jun 15Penumbral1.4068

Saros 150

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on May 25, 2013. It contains partial eclipses from August 20, 2157 through April 19, 2554; total eclipses from April 29, 2572 through August 28, 2770; and a second set of partial eclipses from September 7, 2788 through February 8, 3041. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on June 30, 3275.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 36 at 105 minutes, 16 seconds on July 4, 2680. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.

GreatestFirst
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2680 Jul 04, lasting 105 minutes, 16 seconds.PenumbralPartialTotalCentral
2013 May 252157 Aug 202572 Apr 292626 Jun 02
Last
CentralTotalPartialPenumbral
2734 Aug 072770 Aug 283041 Feb 083275 Jun 30

Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

Series members 1–11 occur between 2013 and 2200:
123
2013 May 252031 Jun 052049 Jun 15
456
2067 Jun 272085 Jul 072103 Jul 19
789
2121 Jul 302139 Aug 102157 Aug 20
1011
2175 Aug 312193 Sep 11

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2147
1809 Apr 30 (Saros 128)1820 Mar 29 (Saros 129)1831 Feb 26 (Saros 130)1842 Jan 26 (Saros 131)1852 Dec 26 (Saros 132)
1863 Nov 25 (Saros 133)1874 Oct 25 (Saros 134)1885 Sep 24 (Saros 135)1896 Aug 23 (Saros 136)1907 Jul 25 (Saros 137)
1918 Jun 24 (Saros 138)1929 May 23 (Saros 139)1940 Apr 22 (Saros 140)1951 Mar 23 (Saros 141)1962 Feb 19 (Saros 142)
1973 Jan 18 (Saros 143)1983 Dec 20 (Saros 144)1994 Nov 18 (Saros 145)2005 Oct 17 (Saros 146)2016 Sep 16 (Saros 147)
2027 Aug 17 (Saros 148)2038 Jul 16 (Saros 149)2049 Jun 15 (Saros 150)
2114 Dec 12 (Saros 156)
2147 Sep 09 (Saros 159)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
1817 Nov 23 (Saros 142)1846 Nov 03 (Saros 143)1875 Oct 14 (Saros 144)
1904 Sep 24 (Saros 145)1933 Sep 04 (Saros 146)1962 Aug 15 (Saros 147)
1991 Jul 26 (Saros 148)2020 Jul 05 (Saros 149)2049 Jun 15 (Saros 150)
2107 May 07 (Saros 152)2136 Apr 16 (Saros 153)
2194 Mar 07 (Saros 155)

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to one partial solar eclipse of Solar Saros 157.

June 21, 2058

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