May 2002 lunar eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse May 26, 2002
The moon passed (right to left) through the Earth's northern penumbral shadow.
Series (and member)	111 (66 of 71)
Gamma	1.1758
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	3:36:34
Contacts (UTC)
P1	10:15:00
Greatest	12:03:22
P4	13:51:34
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Scorpius.

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on May 26, 2002, the first of three lunar eclipses in 2002.

Visibility[]

The beginning of the penumbral phase visible in most of North America except the northeast, Central America, western South America, extreme northeast Russia, eastern Asia, Australia, most of Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, and the southeast Indian Ocean; the end visible in southwestern Alaska, Asia except the extreme north, Australia, the eastern Indian Ocean, and most of the Pacific Ocean except the extreme eastern part.

Relation to other lunar eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2002[]

A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 26.
An annular solar eclipse on June 10.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 24.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 20.
A total solar eclipse on December 4.

It is the first of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2002–2005
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma
111	2002 May 26	penumbral	1.1759	116	2002 Nov 20	penumbral	-1.1127
121	2003 May 16	total	0.4123	126	2003 Nov 09	total	-0.4319
131	2004 May 04	total	-0.3132	136	2004 Oct 28	total	0.2846
141	2005 Apr 24	penumbral	-1.0885	146	2005 Oct 17	partial	0.9796

Last set	2002 Jun 24			Last set	2001 Dec 30

Next set	2006 Mar 14			Next set	2006 Sep 7

Saros series[]

Lunar Saros 111, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on , and last was on . The longest occurrence of this series was on when the totality lasted 106 minutes.

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 118.