July 1999 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse July 28, 1999
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	119 (61 of 83)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:22:32
Penumbral	5:10:56
Contacts
P1	8:58:15 UTC
U1	10:22:31 UTC
Greatest	11:33:43 UTC
U4	12:45:03 UTC
P4	14:09:11 UTC

A partial lunar eclipse took place on July 28, 1999, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1999.

Visibility[]

Related lunar eclipses[]

Eclipses of 1999[]

A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 31.
An annular solar eclipse on February 16.
A partial lunar eclipse on July 28.
A total solar eclipse on August 11.

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

Half-Saros cycle[]

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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 126.