December 2001 lunar eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 30 December 2001
Series (and member)	144 (15 of 71)
Gamma	1.0731
Magnitude	-0.11
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	4:03:32
Contacts (UTC)
P1	8:27:35
Greatest	10:29:18
P4	12:31:07
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Gemini.

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 30 December 2001, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2001. At maximum eclipse, 89.477% of the Moon's disc was partially shaded by the Earth, which caused a slight shadow gradient across its disc; this subtle effect may have been visible to careful observers. No part of the Moon was in complete shadow. The eclipse lasted 4 hours, 4 minutes and 17.7 seconds overall. This lunar eclipse followed the Annular Solar Eclipse on 14 December 2001.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2001

• A total lunar eclipse on 9 January.
• A total solar eclipse on 21 June.
• A partial lunar eclipse on 5 July.
• An annular solar eclipse on 14 December.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 30 December.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002
Descending node					Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1998 Aug 08	penumbral	1.4876		114	1999 Jan 31	penumbral	−1.0190
119	1999 Jul 28	partial	0.7863		124	2000 Jan 21	total	−0.2957
129	2000 Jul 16	total	0.0302		134	2001 Jan 09	total	0.3720
139	2001 Jul 05	partial	−0.7287		144	2001 Dec 30	penumbral	1.0732
149	2002 Jun 24	penumbral	−1.4440
Last set	1998 Sep 06				Last set	1998 Mar 13
Next set	2002 May 26				Next set	2002 Nov 20

Saros cycle

Lunar Saros series 144, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 20 total lunar eclipses.

First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 1749 Jul 29

First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2146 Mar 28

First Total Lunar Eclipse: 2308 Jul 04

First Central Lunar Eclipse: 2362 Aug 06

Greatest Eclipse of the Lunar Saros 144: 2416 Sep 07

Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 2488 Oct 20

Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 2651 Jan 28

Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2867 Jun 08

Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 3011 Sep 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). This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 151.

24 December 1992	4 January 2011

See also

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

External links

• Saros cycle 144
• 2001 Dec 30 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC