December 1992 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse December 9, 1992
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Gamma	0.3144
Magnitude	1.2709
Series (and member)	125 (47 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:13:53
Partial	3:28:44
Penumbral	5:34:04
Contacts
P1	20:57:01 UTC
U1	21:59:45
U2	23:07:10
Greatest	23:44:06
U3	0:21:03
U4	1:28:29
P4	2:31:05

A total lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, December 9, 1992, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1992, the first was a partial lunar eclipse on Monday, June 15.

Visibility[edit]

It is visibly seen throughout the world including Americas (North and South America), Europe, Africa, Asia and Western Australia (including western New Guinea). The lunar eclipse was witnessed in the Philippines on the midday hours of December 10, two years after the total lunar eclipse happened on February 9, 1990.

According to Fred Espenak, this was the darkest eclipse in a decade, caused by the June 15, 1991 eruptions of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.^[1]

Related eclipses[edit]

Eclipses of 1992[edit]

An annular solar eclipse (ascending node) on January 4.
A partial lunar eclipse (ascending node) on June 15.
A total solar eclipse (descending node) on June 30.
A total lunar eclipse (descending node) on December 9.
A partial solar eclipse (ascending node) on December 24.

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1991–1994
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1991 Jun 27	Penumbral	−1.40641	115	1991 Dec 21	Partial	0.97094
120	1992 Jun 15	Partial	−0.62887	125	1992 Dec 9	Total	0.31438
130	1993 Jun 4	Total	0.16376	135	1993 Nov 29	Total	−0.39941
140	1994 May 25	Partial	0.89334	145	1994 Nov 18	Penumbral	−1.10479

Last set	1991 Jul 26			Last set	1991 Jan 30

Next set	1995 Apr 15			Next set	1995 Oct 08

Saros series[edit]

Lunar saros series 125, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 26 total lunar eclipses. The first was on June 17, 1704 and the last will be on March 19, 2155. The longest totality occurrence of this series (7th) was on August 22, 1812 when totality lasted one hour and 42 minutes.^[2]

This is the 17th of 26 total lunar eclipses in series 125. The previous occurrence was on November 29, 1974 and the next will occur on December 21, 2010.

Half-Saros cycle[edit]

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 132.