Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2046 Jan 22
Fred Espenak
Key to Lunar Eclipse Figure (below)
Introduction
The Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2046 Jan 22 is visible from the following geographic regions:
- Asia, Australia, North America
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 2046 Jan 22 at 13:02:37 TD (13:01:15 UT1). This is 1.3 days before the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Moon is in the constellation Cancer. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 1522.
The eclipse belongs to Saros 115 and is number 59 of 72 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.
This is a very shallow partial eclipse. It has an umbral eclipse magnitude of only 0.0550 and a partial eclipse duration of 51.4 minutes. Gamma has a value of 0.9886.
The partial lunar eclipse of 2046 Jan 22 is followed two weeks later by a annular solar eclipse on 2046 Feb 05.
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 82.6 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 115 Table - data for all eclipses in the Saros series
The tables below contain detailed predictions and additional information on the Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2046 Jan 22 .