October 1986 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse October 17, 1986
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	136 (18 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4
The eclipse occurs in Capricornus

A total lunar eclipse took place on October 17, 1986, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 1986, the first being on April 24, 1986.^[1]

Visibility

It was completely visible over Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, seen rising over Europe, Africa on the evening of Friday, October 17, 1986, and setting over Asia, Australia on the morning of Saturday, October 18, 1986.

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1986

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1984–1987
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
111	1984 May 15	Penumbral	1.11308	116	1984 Nov 08	Penumbral	−1.08998
121	1985 May 04	Total	0.35197	126	1985 Oct 28	Total	−0.40218
131	1986 Apr 24	Total	−0.36826	136	1986 Oct 17	Total	0.31887
141	1987 Apr 14	Penumbral	−1.13641	146	1987 Oct 07	Penumbral	1.01890

Last set	1984 Jun 13			Last set	1983 Dec 20

Next set	1988 Mar 03			Next set	1988 Aug 27

Metonic series

This eclipse is the third of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, October 17–18, 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.

Metonic lunar eclipse sets 1948–2005
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type	Saros	Date	Type
111	1948 Apr 23	Partial	116	1948 Oct 18	Penumbral

121	1967 Apr 24	Total	126	1967 Oct 18	Total

131	1986 Apr 24	Total	136	1986 Oct 17	Total

141	2005 Apr 24	Penumbral	146	2005 Oct 17	Partial

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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 143.