A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, March 4, 2053,[1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.0796. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into 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 4.1 days after perigee (on February 28, 2053, at 15:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
Visibility
The eclipse will be completely visible over Asia and Australia, seen rising over Africa and Europe and setting over northwestern North America and the central Pacific Ocean.[3]
 
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Eclipse details
Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
| Parameter | Value |
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| Penumbral Magnitude | 0.93338 |
| Umbral Magnitude | −0.07963 |
| Gamma | −1.05310 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 23h03m14.8s |
| Sun Declination | -06°03'47.9" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'07.7" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 11h02m02.1s |
| Moon Declination | +05°04'58.9" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'55.3" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°58'26.0" |
| ΔT | 87.2 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.
| March 4 Ascending node (full moon) |
March 20 Descending node (new moon) |
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| Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 114 |
Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 140 |
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 2053
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 4.
- An annular solar eclipse on March 20.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 29.
- A total solar eclipse on September 12.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 17, 2049
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of December 22, 2056
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of January 22, 2046
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 15, 2060
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 11, 2062
Tritos
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 5, 2042
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 2, 2064
Lunar Saros 114
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of February 22, 2035
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 16, 2071
Inex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 25, 2024
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 13, 2082
Triad
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 4, 1966
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 4, 2140
Lunar eclipses of 2053–2056
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 27, 2056 and December 22, 2056 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 2053 to 2056 | ||||||||
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| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
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| 114 | 2053 Mar 04
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Penumbral
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−1.0530 | 119 | 2053 Aug 29 |
Penumbral
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1.0165 | |
| 124 | 2054 Feb 22
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Total
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−0.3242 | 129 | 2054 Aug 18
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0.2806 | |
| 134 | 2055 Feb 11
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Total
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0.3526 | 139 | 2055 Aug 07
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−0.4769 | |
| 144 | 2056 Feb 01
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Penumbral
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1.0682 | 149 | 2056 Jul 26
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−1.2048 | |
Saros 114
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 114, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on May 13, 971 AD. It contains partial eclipses from August 7, 1115 through February 18, 1440; total eclipses from February 28, 1458 through July 17, 1674; and a second set of partial eclipses from July 28, 1692 through November 26, 1890. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on June 22, 2233.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 35 at 106 minutes, 5 seconds on May 24, 1584. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[6]
| Greatest | First | |||
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| The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1584 May 24, lasting 106 minutes, 5 seconds.[7] | Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 971 May 13 |
1115 Aug 07 |
1458 Feb 28 |
1530 Apr 12 | |
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| 1638 Jun 26 |
1674 Jul 17 |
1890 Nov 26 |
2233 Jun 22 | |
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.
| Series members 48–69 occur between 1801 and 2200: | |||||
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| 48 | 49 | 50 | |||
| 1818 Oct 14 | 1836 Oct 24 | 1854 Nov 04 | |||
| 51 | 52 | 53 | |||
| 1872 Nov 15 | 1890 Nov 26 | 1908 Dec 07 | |||
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| 54 | 55 | 56 | |||
| 1926 Dec 19 | 1944 Dec 29 | 1963 Jan 09 | |||
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| 57 | 58 | 59 | |||
| 1981 Jan 20 | 1999 Jan 31 | 2017 Feb 11 | |||
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| 60 | 61 | 62 | |||
| 2035 Feb 22 | 2053 Mar 04 | 2071 Mar 16 | |||
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| 63 | 64 | 65 | |||
| 2089 Mar 26 | 2107 Apr 07 | 2125 Apr 18 | |||
| 66 | 67 | 68 | |||
| 2143 Apr 29 | 2161 May 09 | 2179 May 21 | |||
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| 2197 May 31 | |||||
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.
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| 1922 Mar 13 (Saros 102) |
1933 Feb 10 (Saros 103) |
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| 1998 Aug 08 (Saros 109) |
2009 Jul 07 (Saros 110) |
2020 Jun 05 (Saros 111) | |||||||
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| 2031 May 07 (Saros 112) |
2042 Apr 05 (Saros 113) |
2053 Mar 04 (Saros 114) |
2064 Feb 02 (Saros 115) |
2075 Jan 02 (Saros 116) | |||||
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| 2085 Dec 01 (Saros 117) |
2096 Oct 31 (Saros 118) |
2107 Oct 02 (Saros 119) |
2118 Aug 31 (Saros 120) |
2129 Jul 31 (Saros 121) | |||||
| 2140 Jun 30 (Saros 122) |
2151 May 30 (Saros 123) |
2162 Apr 29 (Saros 124) |
2173 Mar 29 (Saros 125) |
2184 Feb 26 (Saros 126) | |||||
| 2195 Jan 26 (Saros 127) | |||||||||
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 121.
| February 28, 2044 | March 11, 2062 |
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See also
References
- ^ "March 4–5, 2053 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ "Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2053 Mar 04" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2053 Mar 04". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses of Saros 114". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
- ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 114
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links
- 2053 Mar 04 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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