December 1982 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse December 30, 1982
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	134 (25 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:00:03
Partial	3:15:53
Penumbral	5:10:34
Contacts
P1	8:53:27 UTC
U1	9:50:48
U2	10:58:43
Greatest	11:29:37
U3	11:58:46
U4	13:06:41
P4	14:04:01

A total lunar eclipse took place on December 30, 1982.^[1] This was a supermoon since perigee was on the same day. It also was a blue moon, the second full moon of December for the eastern hemisphere where the previous full moon was on December 1.^[2]

Visibility

Related eclipses

There are seven eclipses in 1982, the maximum possible, including 4 partial solar eclipses: January 25, July 20, June 21, and December 15.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1980–1984
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1980 Jul 27	Penumbral	1.41391	114	1981 Jan 20	Penumbral	−1.01421
119	1981 Jul 17	Partial	0.70454	124	1982 Jan 09	Total	−0.29158
129	1982 Jul 06	Total	−0.05792	134	1982 Dec 30	Total	0.37579
139	1983 Jun 25	Partial	−0.81520	144	1983 Dec 20	Penumbral	1.07468
149	1984 Jun 13	Penumbral	−1.52403

Last set	1980 Aug 26			Last set	1980 Mar 13

Next set	1984 May 15			Next set	1984 Nov 08