December 2001 lunar eclipse

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, December 30, 2001, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2001.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse December 30, 2001

Series (and member)	144 (15 of 71)
Gamma	1.0731
Magnitude	-0.11
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	4:03:32
Contacts (UTC)
P1	8:27:35
Greatest	10:29:18
P4	12:31:07
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Gemini.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2001

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

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

Saros cycle

Lunar Saros series 144, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 20 total lunar eclipses.

First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 1749 Jul 29

First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2146 Mar 28

First Total Lunar Eclipse: 2308 Jul 04

First Central Lunar Eclipse: 2362 Aug 06

Greatest Eclipse of the Lunar Saros 144: 2416 Sep 07

Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 2488 Oct 20

Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 2651 Jan 28

Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2867 Jun 08

Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 3011 Sep 04

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 151.

December 24, 1992	January 4, 2011

References

Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

Saros cycle 144
2001 Dec 30 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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[1] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros