February 2009 lunar eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 9, 2009
Just before maximum eclipse (14:29 UTC) from Chennai, India
The moon passes right to left through the Earth's southern penumbral shadow.
Series (and member)	143 (18)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	3:58:49
Contacts
P1	12:38:50 UTC
Greatest	14:38:16 UTC
P4	16:37:39 UTC
The moon moves right to left (west to east) through the constellation Leo

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on February 9, 2009, the first of four lunar eclipses in 2009, and being the deepest of three penumbral eclipses.^[1] It also happened on the Lantern Festival, the first since February 20, 1989.

Visibility

The eclipse was not visible in the East coast of the United States, South America and southernmost Mexico, Western Africa and western Europe. Best visibility was expected over most of Asia, the Western US, Mexico and throughout the Pacific region.^[2]

This simulated view shows the Earth and Sun as viewed from the center of the moon near contact points P1 and P4. The eclipse will be visible from earth from the locations of the world as seen on the Earth above.

Map

Relation to other eclipses

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2006–2009
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros # and photo	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros # and photo	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
113	2006 Mar 14	penumbral	1.0211	118	2006 Sep 7	partial	−0.9262
123	2007 Mar 03	total	0.3175	128	2007 Aug 28	total	−0.2146
133	2008 Feb 21	total	−0.3992	138	2008 Aug 16	partial	0.5646
143	2009 Feb 09	penumbral	−1.0640	148	2009 Aug 06	penumbral	1.3572

Last set	2005 Apr 24			Last set	2005 Oct 17

Next set	2009 Dec 31			Next set	2009 Jul 07