July 2019 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse July 16, 2019
Near greatest eclipse from Tilehurst, England, 21:30 UTC
This chart shows the right-to-left hourly motion of the moon through the earth's shadow.
Series (and member)	139 (22 of 81)
Gamma	-0.643
Magnitude	0.6531
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:57:56
Penumbral	5:33:43
Contacts
P1	18:43:53 UTC
U1	20:01:43
Greatest	21:30:44
U4	22:59:39
P4	0:17:36

A partial lunar eclipse occurred on the 16 and 17 July 2019. The Moon was covered 65.31% by the Earth's umbral shadow at maximum eclipse.

This was the last umbral lunar eclipse until May 2021.

Visibility[]

It was visible over most of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and South America.^[1]


Visibility map

Gallery[]

Hefei, China, 19:56 UTC
Mariupol, Ukraine, 20:25 UTC
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 21:05 UTC
Moscow, Russia, 21:11 UTC
Novate Milanese, Italy, 21:17 UTC
Bandung, Indonesia, 21:20 UTC
Farasan Island, Saudi Arabia, 21:25 UTC
Paris, France, 21:27 UTC
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21:30 UTC
Munich, Germany, 21:36 UTC
Prague, Czech Republic, 21:39 UTC
Manuel B. Gonnet, Argentina, 21:43 UTC
London, UK, 21:47 UTC
Sayada, Tunisia, 21:55 UTC
Banjarmasin, Indonesia, Near Moonset, 22:17 UTC
Krško, Slovenia, 22:19 UTC
Szanda, Hungary, 22:23 UTC
Wrocław, Poland, 22:27 UTC
Logroño, Spain, 22:32 UTC

Related eclipses[]

Tzolkinex[]

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 4 June, 2012

Followed: Lunar eclipse of 28 August 2026

Tritos[]

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 16 August 2008

Followed: Lunar eclipse of 15 June 2030

Inex[]

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 6 August 1990

Followed: Lunar eclipse of 26 June 2048

Triad[]

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of 14 September 1932

Followed: Lunar eclipse of 17 May 2106

Eclipses of 2019[]

A partial solar eclipse on 6 January.
A total lunar eclipse on 21 January.
A total solar eclipse on 2 July.
A partial lunar eclipse on 16 July.
An annular solar eclipse on 26 December.

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	2016 Aug 18	Penumbral	1.5641	114	2017 Feb 11	Penumbral	-1.0255
119	2017 Aug 07	Partial	0.8669	124	2018 Jan 31	Total	-0.3014
129	2018 Jul 27	Total	0.1168	134	2019 Jan 21	Total	0.3684
139	2019 Jul 16	Partial	-0.6430	144	2020 Jan 10	Penumbral	1.2406
149	2020 Jul 05	Penumbral	-1.3639

Last set	2016 Sep 16			Last set	2016 Mar 23

Next set	2020 Jun 05			Next set	2020 Nov 30

Saros cycle[]

Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on , lasting 102 minutes.^[2]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1658 Dec 09	1947 Jun 03
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2488 Apr 26	2542 May 30	2686 Aug 25	3065 Apr 13

1901–2100
		1947 Jun 03

1965 Jun 14	1983 Jun 25	2001 Jul 05

2019 Jul 16	2037 Jul 27	2055 Aug 07

Half-Saros cycle[]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146.