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
P1
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
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A total lunar eclipse will take place on February 11, 2055.

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		Total	121		Total
122		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		Total
136		Total	137		Total
138		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		116		117		118
119		120		121		122
123		124		125		126
127		128		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		137		138
139		140		141		142
143		144		145		146
147		148		149

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2053-2056
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
Ascending node			Descending node
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		Penumbral	149		Partial

Last set	2052 Apr 14		Last set	2052 Oct 08

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