July 2001 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse 5 July 2001
This chart shows the right-to-left hourly motion of the moon through the earth's shadow.
Series (and member)	139 (21 of 81)
Gamma	-0.7287
Magnitude	0.499
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:42:52
Penumbral	5:22:07
Contacts (UTC)
P1	12:12:46
U1	13:35:38
Greatest	14:55:19
U4	16:14:54
P4	17:37:52
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Sagittarius.

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Thursday 5 July 2001, the second of three lunar eclipses in 2001. The Earth's shadow on the moon was clearly visible in this eclipse, with 49.614% of the Moon in shadow; the partial eclipse lasted for 2 hours, 40 minutes and 0.5 seconds. Occurring only 3.9 days before apogee (Apogee on 9 July 2001), the Moon’s apparent diameter was 5.021% smaller than average.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2001

• A total lunar eclipse on 9 January.
• A total solar eclipse on 21 June.
• A partial lunar eclipse on 5 July.
• An annular solar eclipse on 14 December.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 30 December.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002
Descending node					Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1998 Aug 08	penumbral	1.4876		114	1999 Jan 31	penumbral	−1.0190
119	1999 Jul 28	partial	0.7863		124	2000 Jan 21	total	−0.2957
129	2000 Jul 16	total	0.0302		134	2001 Jan 09	total	0.3720
139	2001 Jul 05	partial	−0.7287		144	2001 Dec 30	penumbral	1.0732
149	2002 Jun 24	penumbral	−1.4440
Last set	1998 Sep 06				Last set	1998 Mar 13
Next set	2002 May 26				Next set	2002 Nov 20

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146.

30 June 1992	11 July 2010

Saros cycle

Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2199 Nov 02, lasting 102 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1658 Dec 09	1947 Jun 03	2073 Aug 17	2109 Sep 09
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2488 Apr 26	2542 May 30	2686 Aug 25	3065 Apr 13

1901–2100

1911 May 13		1929 May 23		1947 Jun 03
1965 Jun 14		1983 Jun 25		2001 Jul 05
2019 Jul 16		2037 Jul 27		2055 Aug 07
2073 Aug 17		2091 Aug 29

See also

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 21st-century lunar eclipses

External links

• Saros cycle 139
• 2001 Jul 05 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC