February 1951 lunar eclipse

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, February 21, 1951. This was 6.4 days after the Moon reached apogee.

Grazing penumbral eclipse
The magnitude of the eclipse was 0.007 or a miss depending on definitions of the penumbral shadow is defined. Bao-Lin Lui's Canon of lunar eclipses list it as the last eclipse of a saros cycle, with magnitude 0.007, while NASA lists February 10, 1933, as the final series event, with this one missing the shadow.

As seen from the lunar south pole the sun missing the sphere of the earth, excluding the atmosphere.
 * Lunar eclipse from moon-1951Feb21 lunar south pole.png

Metonic cycle (19 years)
This is the third of five Metonic lunar eclipses.