May 2049 lunar eclipse

May 2049 lunar eclipse
Penumbral eclipse
Date	17 May 2049
Gamma	-1.1337
Magnitude	0.7638
Saros cycle	112 (67 of 72)
Penumbral	224 minutes 16 seconds
P1
Contacts (UTC)
P1	09:33:02
Greatest	11:25:06
P4	13:17:18
	← December 2048 June 2049 →

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on May 17, 2049.

Visibility[]

Related lunar eclipses[]

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2049-2052
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
Ascending node			Descending node
112	2049 May 17	Penumbral	117	2049 Nov 09	Penumbral
122	2050 May 06	Total	127	2050 Oct 30	Total
132	2051 Apr 26	Total	137	2051 Oct 19	Total
142	2052 Apr 14	Penumbral	147	2052 Oct 08	Partial

Last set	2049 Jun 15		Last set	2048 Dec 20

Next set	2053 Aug 29		Next set	2053 Mar 04

Saros series[]

Lunar Saros series 112, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 15 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1490 Jun 02, lasting 100 minutes.^[3]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	859 May 20	985 Aug 03	1364 Mar 18	1436 Apr 30
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1562 Jul 16	1616 Aug 27	2013 Apr 25	2139 Jul 12

There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on earth.

1901–2100
		1941 Mar 13

1959 Mar 24	1979 Apr 04	1995 Apr 15

2013 Apr 25	2031 May 07	2049 May 17

Half-Saros cycle[]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[4] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 119.

May 11, 2040	May 22, 2058

Notes[]

^ For a partial or total lunar eclipse, this value denotes the umbral magnitude. For a penumbral lunar eclipse, this denotes the penumbral magnitude.
^ Lunar Saros 112 - Fred Espenak's GSFC Eclipse Canon
^ Listing of Eclipses of series 112
^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros