September 2025 lunar eclipse

Total lunar eclipse September 7, 2025

Saros (and member)	128 (41 of 71)
Gamma	-0.2752
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:22:06
Partial	3:29:24
Penumbral	5:26:40
Contacts (UTC)
P1	15:28:21
U1	16:27:02
U2	17:30:41
Greatest	18:11:43
U3	18:52:47
U4	19:56:26
P4	20:55:00

A total lunar eclipse will take place on September 7, 2025. The Moon will barely miss the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility[]

It will be completely visible over much of Asia, Australia and eastern Africa, will be seen rising over the rest of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia and New Zealand.


Visibility map

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2025[]

A total lunar eclipse on March 14.
A partial solar eclipse on March 29.
A total lunar eclipse on September 7.
A partial solar eclipse on September 21.

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024–2027
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
113	2024 Mar 25	Penumbral	118	2024 Sep 18	Partial
123	2025 Mar 14	Total	128	2025 Sep 07	Total
133	2026 Mar 03	Total	138	2026 Aug 28	Partial
143	2027 Feb 20	Penumbral	148	2027 Aug 17	Penumbral

Last set	2023 May 05		Last set	2023 Oct 28

Next set	2028 Jan 12		Next set	2027 Jul 18

Saros series[]

Lunar saros series 128, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 57 umbral eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 15 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1953 Jul 26, lasting 108 minutes.^[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1304 Jun 18	1430 Sep 2	1845 May 21
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2007 Aug 28		2440 May 17	2566 Aug 2

1901–2100
	1935 Jul 16	1953 Jul 26

1971 Aug 6	1989 Aug 17	2007 Aug 28

2025 Sep 7	2043 Sep 19

Lunar Saros 128 contains 15 total lunar eclipses between 1845 and 2097 (in years 1845, 1867, 1881, 1899, 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, 2025, 2043, 2061, 2079 and 2097). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Metonic cycle (19 years)[]

This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, September 7, each separated by 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 in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

2006 Mar 14.99 - penumbral (113) 2025 Mar 14.29 - total (123) 2044 Mar 13.82 - total (133) - partial (143)	2006 Sep 07.79 - partial (118) 2025 Sep 07.76 - total (128) 2044 Sep 07.47 - partial (138) - penumbral (148)

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135.