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A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.2576. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow.
English: The last full moon of 2010 occurs tonight 12/20-12/21 at 08:15 12/21 GMT. This coincides with a full lunar eclipse which will be visible across all of North America the night of 12/20-12/21 starting at 05:27 GMT, reaching the greatest eclipse at 08:17 GMT and ending at 11:06 GMT.
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.
The first full moon of the year is about to rise over the skies. Get ready to "howl" at the "wolf" moon, a celestial event so named for the idea that in the dark, cold months of winter, wolves ...
The supermoon of 14 November 2016 was 356,511 km (221,526 mi) away [1] from the center of Earth. Supermoons occur 3–4 times per year. [2] As the Earth revolves around the Sun, approximate axial parallelism of the Moon's orbital plane (tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane) results in the revolution of the lunar nodes relative to the Earth.
The duration from full moon to new moon (or new moon to full moon) varies from approximately 13 days 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours to about 15 days 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours. Due to lunar motion relative to the meridian and the ecliptic, in Earth's northern hemisphere: A new moon appears highest at the summer solstice and lowest at the winter solstice.
As the summer continues to grace us with more fun in the sun, keep your spiritual self intact for a new full moon arriving in August, also known as the "sturgeon moon." Celebrity astrologer Kyle ...
The Lunation Number or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a specific one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines "lunation 1" as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.