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The shortest cycle that gives eclipses on the same date (more or less) in both the Gregorian and in a 12-month lunar calendar, because it is almost exactly a whole number of Gregorian years (391.00029) as well as being exactly 403 12-month lunar years.
Lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. [1] Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth's orbit.
Lists of lunar eclipses. There will be 230 lunar eclipses in the 21st century (2001–2100): 87 penumbral, 58 partial and 85 total. [1] Eclipses are listed in sets by lunar years, repeating every 12 months for each node. Ascending node eclipses are given a red background highlight. See also: List of lunar eclipses, List of 20th-century lunar ...
Saros (astronomy) The saros (/ ˈsɛərɒs / ⓘ) is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.321 days (18.04 years), or 18 years plus 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon ...
In the 5,000 years from 2000 BC to 3000 AD, there will be a total of 12,064 lunar eclipses: 4,378 penumbral eclipses, of which 4,237 were partial and 141 were total. 4,207 partial eclipses. 3,479 total eclipses, of which 2,074 were central and 1,405 were non-central. The longest partial lunar eclipse during this period will occur on 8 February ...
May 2022 lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse occurred on 15–16 May 2022, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2022. [1] The event occurred near lunar perigee; as a result, this event was referred to some in media coverage as a "super flower blood moon" [Note 1][2][3][4] and elsewhere as a "super blood moon", [5][6][7] a supermoon that ...
This eclipse is the third of five Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, 8–9 November: The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.
Lunar eclipses always occur at the full moon phase when Earth is positioned between the moon and the sun. ... depending on how the lunar cycle lines up with the Gregorian calendar.