February 2055 lunar eclipse

February 2055 lunar eclipse

Total eclipse
Hourly snapshots of the Moon traveling through the Earth's shadow
Date	2055 February 11
Gamma	0.3526
Magnitude	1.2246
Saros cycle	134 (29 of 73)
Totality	66 minutes
Partiality	198 minutes 25 seconds
Penumbral	312 minutes 52 seconds
Contacts (UTC) P1 20:08:07 U1 21:05:22 U2 22:11:35 Greatest 22:44:34 U3 23:17:34 (February 11) U4 00:23:47 (February 12) P4 01:20:59

A total lunar eclipse will take place on February 11, 2055.

This eclipse is the third of an almost tetrad, the others being 22 February 2054 (T), 18 August 2054 (T) and 7 August 2055 (P).

Visibility

View of the Earth from the Moon at greatest eclipse

The entire eclipse will be visible from Africa, Europe, and the western half of Asia. Part or most of the eclipse will be visible from the Americas (except for westernmost North America), the eastern half of Asia, and western Australia.

Related lunar eclipses

Tritos series

The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.

This series produces 23 total eclipses between June 22, 1880 and August 9, 2120.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart
120	1902 Apr 22	Total		121	1913 Mar 22	Total
122	1924 Feb 20	Total		123	1935 Jan 19	Total
124	1945 Dec 19	Total		125	1956 Nov 18	Total
126	1967 Oct 18	Total		127	1978 Sep 16	Total
128	1989 Aug 17	Total		129	2000 Jul 16	Total
130	2011 Jun 15	Total		131	2022 May 16	Total
132	2033 Apr 14	Total		133	2044 Mar 13	Total
134	2055 Feb 11	Total		135	2066 Jan 11	Total
136	2076 Dec 10	Total		137	2087 Nov 10	Total
138	2098 Oct 10	Total

Inex series

The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.

This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly. It is a part of Lunar Inex series 35.

Series events from 1500–2500

Descending node		Ascending node		Descending node		Ascending node
Saros	Date Chart	Saros	Date Chart	Saros	Date Chart	Saros	Date Chart
115	1505 Feb 18	116	1534 Jan 30	117	1563 Jan 9	118	1591 Dec 30
119	1620 Dec 9	120	1649 Nov 19	121	1678 Oct 29	122	1707 Oct 11
123	1736 Sep 20	124	1765 Aug 30	125	1794 Aug 11	126	1823 Jul 23
127	1852 Jul 1	128	1881 Jun 12	129	1910 May 24	130	1939 May 3
131	1968 Apr 13	132	1997 Mar 24	133	2026 Mar 3	134	2055 Feb 11
135	2084 Jan 22	136	2113 Jan 2	137	2141 Dec 13	138	2170 Nov 23
139	2199 Nov 2	140	2228 Oct 14	141	2257 Sep 24	142	2286 Sep 3
143	2315 Aug 16	144	2344 Jul 26	145	2373 Jul 5	146	2402 Jun 16
147	2431 May 27	148	2460 May 5	149	2489 Apr 16

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2053–2056

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
114	2053 Mar 04	Penumbral		119	2053 Aug 29	Penumbral
124	2054 Feb 22	Total		129	2054 Aug 18	Total
134	2055 Feb 11	Total		139	2055 Aug 07	Partial
144	2056 Feb 01	Penumbral		149	2056 Jul 26	Partial
Last set	2052 Apr 14			Last set	2052 Oct 08
Next set	2056 Dec 22			Next set	2056 Jun 27

Tzolkinex

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of January 1, 2048

• Followed: Lunar eclipse of March 25, 2062

See also

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

External links

• 2055 Feb 11 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC