A partial lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Sunday, August 19, 2035,[1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.1049. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring about 4.9 days before apogee (on August 14, 2035, at 2:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.[2]

Visibility

The eclipse will be completely visible over South America, Africa, and Europe, seen rising over North America and setting over west, central, and south Asia.[3]

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]

August 19, 2035 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Penumbral Magnitude 1.15186
Umbral Magnitude 0.10490
Gamma 0.94339
Sun Right Ascension 09h52m42.8s
Sun Declination +12°52'21.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'48.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 21h51m50.7s
Moon Declination -12°01'40.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'05.5"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°55'23.4"
ΔT 76.7 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of August–September 2035
August 19
Descending node (full moon)
September 2
Ascending node (new moon)
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 119
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 145

Eclipses in 2035

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Lunar Saros 119

Inex

Triad

Lunar eclipses of 2035–2038

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]

The penumbral lunar eclipses on June 17, 2038 and December 11, 2038 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2035 to 2038
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
114 2035 Feb 22
Penumbral
−1.0357 119 2035 Aug 19
Partial
0.9433
124 2036 Feb 11
Total
−0.3110 129 2036 Aug 07
Total
0.2004
134 2037 Jan 31
Total
0.3619 139 2037 Jul 27
Partial
−0.5582
144 2038 Jan 21
Penumbral
1.0710 149 2038 Jul 16
Penumbral
−1.2837

Saros 119

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 82 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on October 14, 935 AD. It contains partial eclipses from May 18, 1296 through August 2, 1422; total eclipses from August 13, 1440 through June 15, 1927; and a second set of partial eclipses from June 25, 1945 through August 19, 2035. The series ends at member 82 as a penumbral eclipse on March 25, 2396.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 49 at 102 minutes, 6 seconds on March 30, 1801. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[6]

Greatest First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1801 Mar 30, lasting 102 minutes, 6 seconds.[7] Penumbral Partial Total Central
934 Oct 14
1296 May 18
1440 Aug 13
1512 Sep 25
Last
Central Total Partial Penumbral
1873 May 12
1927 Jun 15
2035 Aug 19
2396 Mar 25

Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1817 and 2200
1817 May 01
(Saros 99)
1828 Mar 31
(Saros 100)
1839 Feb 28
(Saros 101)
1850 Jan 28
(Saros 102)
1860 Dec 28
(Saros 103)
1893 Sep 25
(Saros 106)
1915 Jul 26
(Saros 108)
1926 Jun 25
(Saros 109)
1937 May 25
(Saros 110)
1948 Apr 23
(Saros 111)
1959 Mar 24
(Saros 112)
1970 Feb 21
(Saros 113)
1981 Jan 20
(Saros 114)
1991 Dec 21
(Saros 115)
2002 Nov 20
(Saros 116)
2013 Oct 18
(Saros 117)
2024 Sep 18
(Saros 118)
2035 Aug 19
(Saros 119)
2046 Jul 18
(Saros 120)
2057 Jun 17
(Saros 121)
2068 May 17
(Saros 122)
2079 Apr 16
(Saros 123)
2090 Mar 15
(Saros 124)
2101 Feb 14
(Saros 125)
2112 Jan 14
(Saros 126)
2122 Dec 13
(Saros 127)
2133 Nov 12
(Saros 128)
2144 Oct 11
(Saros 129)
2155 Sep 11
(Saros 130)
2166 Aug 11
(Saros 131)
2177 Jul 11
(Saros 132)
2188 Jun 09
(Saros 133)
2199 May 10
(Saros 134)

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 126.

August 12, 2026 August 23, 2044

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "August 18–19, 2035 Partial Lunar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2035 Aug 19" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2035 Aug 19". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  5. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses of Saros 119". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  7. ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 119
  8. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


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