July 2020 lunar eclipse

July 2020 lunar eclipse
Penumbral eclipse
	During moonrise in Springfield, OR at 4:22 UT
Date	5 July 2020
Gamma	-1.3638
Magnitude	0.3546
Saros cycle	149 (3 of 72)
Penumbral	165 minutes
P1
showContacts (UTC)
P1	3:07:23
Greatest	4:30:00
P4	5:52:23
	← June 2020 November 2020 →

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on 5 July 2020, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2020.

Visibility[]

The eclipse was visible during moonrise from some parts of North America, some parts of the Pacific Ocean and New Zealand, completely visible in Central and South America, some parts of North America, some parts of Western Africa as well as the extreme part of the South-West coast of South Africa, and visible during moonset from southwestern Europe, most of Africa (except Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and a strip of North Eastern Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia), and some parts of the Indian Ocean.


Visibility map

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2020[]

A penumbral lunar eclipse on 10 January.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on 5 June.
An annular solar eclipse on 21 June.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on 5 July.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on 30 November.
A total solar eclipse on 14 December.

Lunar year series[]

showLunar 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 series[]

It is part of Saros cycle 149.^{[citation needed]}

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 156.