A partial lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Tuesday, October 8, 2052, with an umbral magnitude of 0.0821. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring about 2.1 days before perigee (on October 10, 2052, at 11:35 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
Visibility The eclipse will be completely visible over northeast Asia, eastern Australia, and western North America, seen rising over east and south Asia and western Australia and setting over eastern North America and much of South America.
Eclipse details Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular lunar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 2052 A total solar eclipse on March 30. A penumbral lunar eclipse on April 14. An annular solar eclipse on September 22. A partial lunar eclipse on October 8.
Metonic Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 20, 2048 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 26, 2056
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 27, 2045 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 19, 2059
Half-Saros Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 3, 2043 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061
Tritos Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 8, 2041 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 7, 2063
Lunar Saros 147 Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 28, 2034 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 19, 2070
Inex Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 28, 2023 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 18, 2081
Triad Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 8, 1965 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 10, 2139
Lunar eclipses of 2049–2052 This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. The penumbral lunar eclipse on June 15, 2049 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Saros 147 This eclipse is a part of Saros series 147, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on July 2, 1890. It contains partial eclipses from September 28, 2034 through May 27, 2431; total eclipses from June 6, 2449 through October 5, 2647; and a second set of partial eclipses from October 16, 2665 through May 1, 2990. The series ends at member 70 as a penumbral eclipse on July 28, 3145. The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 37 at 105 minutes, 18 seconds on August 1, 2539. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
Tritos series This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Half-Saros cycle A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 154.
See also List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
Notes
External links 2052 Oct 08 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC