Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2039 Nov 30
Fred Espenak
Key to Lunar Eclipse Figure (below)
Introduction
The Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2039 Nov 30 is visible from the following geographic regions:
- Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Pacific
The diagram to the right depicts the Moon's path with respect to Earth's umbral and penumbral shadows. Below it is a map showing the geographic regions of eclipse visibility. Click on the figure to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the figure, see Key to Lunar Eclipse Figures.
The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on 2039 Nov 30 at 16:56:28 TD (16:55:09 UT1). This is 2.0 days before the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Moon is in the constellation Taurus. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 1446.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 126 and is number 46 of 70 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.
This is a very deep partial eclipse. It has an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9443 and a partial eclipse duration of 206.8 minutes. Gamma has a value of -0.4721.
The partial lunar eclipse of 2039 Nov 30 is followed two weeks later by a total solar eclipse on 2039 Dec 15.
These eclipses all take place during a single eclipse season.
The eclipse predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD) and Universal Time (UT1). The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., TD = UT1 + ΔT). ΔT has a value of 79.1 seconds for this eclipse.
The following links provide maps and data for the eclipse.
- Detailed Lunar Eclipse Figure - eclipse geometry diagram and map of eclipse visibility (Key to Figure)
- Saros 126 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2039 Nov 30 .