The Total Lunar Eclipse Of June 2011

 The Total Lunar Eclipse Of June 2011

A total lunar eclipse took place on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second will occur on December 10, 2011.

This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth's shadow passes across the Moon. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018. ( Picture description : Total lunar eclipse June 15, 2011. The moon passes right to left through the Earth's shadow).

Series (and member)	130 (34 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	01:40:52
Partial	3:39:58
Penumbral	5:39:10
Contacts (UTC)
P1	17:23:05
U1	18:22:37
U2	19:22:11
Greatest	20:12:37
U3	21:03:22
U4	22:02:35
P4	23:02:15

Visibility :

The eclipse was visible rising over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia. In western Asia, Australia and the Philippines, the lunar eclipse was visible just before sunrise]

 This simulation shows the view of the earth from the moon at greatest eclipse.

 The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow

in the constellation of Ophiuchus (north of Scorpius)

Visibility map of Total lunar eclipse June 15, 2011:

Photo gallery:

Montalbán de Córdoba, Spain





                                                                                                                                                                                         




 

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 June 15, 2011