December 2028 lunar eclipse
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A total lunar eclipse will take place on Sunday, December 31, 2028 (January 1, 2029 for Eastern Asian and Australian timezones). It will occur during a blue moon and is the first such eclipse to happen on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day since December 2009, and the first total lunar eclipse on New Year's Day in history. The next such eclipse will be in December 2047 (though January 2048 for most timezones).
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Total lunar eclipse December 31, 2028 | |
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Ecliptic north up The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
Saros (and member) | 125 (49 of 72) |
Gamma | 0.3258 |
Magnitude | 1.2463 |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Totality | 1:11:20 |
Partial | 3:28:49 |
Penumbral | 5:36:13 |
Contacts (UTC) | |
P1 | 14:03:49 |
U1 | 15:07:35 |
U2 | 16:16:19 |
Greatest | 16:51:58 |
U3 | 17:27:40 |
U4 | 18:36:24 |
P4 | 19:40:02 |
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