June 2010 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse 26 June 2010
From Canberra, Australia at 11:31 UTC
This chart shows the right-to-left hourly motion of the moon through the earth's shadow.
Series (and member)	120 (58 of 84)
Magnitude	-0.542
Gamma	-0.7091
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:42:52
Penumbral	5:22:07
Contacts (UTC)
P1	8:57:24
U1	10:16:58
Greatest	11:38:27
U4	12:59:50
P4	14:19:31
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Sagittarius.

The partial lunar eclipse of 26 June 2010 was the first of two lunar eclipses in 2010. At maximum eclipse, 54.2% of the moon was covered by the earth's shadow.^[1]

This eclipse is a part of Lunar Saros 120 series, repeating every 18 years and 10 days, last occurring on 15 June 1992, and will next repeat on 6 July 2028. This series is winding down: The final total eclipse of this series was on 14 May 1938 and the final partial lunar eclipse will be on 28 July 2064.

Visibility[]

NASA chart of the eclipse

The entire umbral phase was visible after sunset Saturday evening throughout the Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Japan. The point where the moon was directly overhead at maximum eclipse lay over the South Pacific Ocean, far to the southwest of Hawaii. The lunar eclipse seen over the Philippines on Saturday evening despite rainshowers and thick clouds, but it was clearly visible throughout the night sky.

This simulation shows the view of the earth from the moon from the center of the earth at greatest eclipse.

Map[]

It was seen before sunrise on Saturday morning setting over western North and South America:

Times of over North America
Event	PDT (UTC−7)	MDT (UTC−6)	CDT (UTC−5)	EDT (UTC−4)	UTC
Start penumbral (P1)	1:57 a.m.	2:57 a.m.	3:57 a.m.	4:57 a.m.	8:57 a.m.
Start umbral (U1)	3:17 a.m.	4:17 a.m.	5:17 a.m.	6:17 a.m.	10:17 a.m.
Greatest eclipse	4:38 a.m.	5:38 a.m.	Set	Set	11:38 a.m.
End umbral (U4)	Set	Set	Set	Set	1:00 p.m.
End penumbral (P4)	Set	Set	Set	Set	2:20 p.m.

Photo gallery[]

Dallas, Texas, 10:28 UTC
Villa Gesell, Argentina, 10:29 UTC
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 10:54 UTC
Vancouver, Canada, 11:07 UTC
Hobart, Australia, 11:09 UTC
Auckland, New Zealand, 11:17 UTC
Sapporo, Japan, 11:36 UTC
Animation from California

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2010[]

An annular solar eclipse on 15 January.
A partial lunar eclipse on 26 June.
A total solar eclipse on 11 July.
A total lunar eclipse on 21 December.

Lunar year (354 days)[]

This eclipse is the one of five lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (Shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2009–2013
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros # Photo	Date Viewing	Type chart	Gamma	Saros # Photo	Date Viewing	Type chart	Gamma
110	2009 Jul 07	penumbral	-1.4916	115	2009 Dec 31	partial	0.9766
120	2010 Jun 26	partial	-0.7091	125	2010 Dec 21	total	0.3214
130	2011 Jun 15	total	0.0897	135	2011 Dec 10	total	-0.3882
140	2012 Jun 04	partial	0.8248	145	2012 Nov 28	penumbral	-1.0869
150	2013 May 25	penumbral	1.5351

Last set	2009 Aug 06			Last set	2009 Feb 9

Next set	2013 Apr 25			Next set	2013 Oct 18

Metonic series (19 years)[]

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the earth's shadow will be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

Ascending node	Descending node
1991 Jun 27 - penumbral (110) 2010 Jun 26 - partial (120) 2029 Jun 26 - total (130) 2048 Jun 26 - partial (140) - penumbral (150)	1991 Dec 21 - partial (115) 2010 Dec 21 - total (125) 2029 Dec 20 - total (135) 2048 Dec 20 - partial (145)

Half-Saros cycle[]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 127.