January 2001 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse 9 January 2001
Totality as viewed from Oria, Italy.
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series (and member)	134 (26 of 73)
Gamma	0.3720
Magnitude	1.1889
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:01:02
Partial	3:16:19
Penumbral	5:11:02
Contacts (UTC)
P1	17:45:04
U1	18:42:27
U2	19:50:05
Greatest	20:20:35
U3	20:51:07
U4	21:58:45
P4	22:56:06
The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Gemini.

A total lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday 9 January 2001, the first of three lunar eclipses in 2001. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour 1 minute and 2 seconds. The Moon was 18.89% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and totality was observed in all of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours 16 minutes and 19 seconds and was visible in parts of north-eastern North America and Australia. It is the only total eclipse of 2001. It was visible over Asia and Western Australia with the Middle East getting mid eclipse at midnight.

Visibility[edit]

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Eclipses of 2001[edit]

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[edit]

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

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).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 141.