July 2020 lunar eclipse

Penumbral eclipseDate5 July 2020Gamma−1.3638Magnitude0.3546Saros cycle149 (3 of 72)Penumbral165 minutes

Contacts (UTC)
P1	3:07:23
Greatest	4:30:00
P4	5:52:23

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on 5 July 2020, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2020.

Visibility

The eclipse was visible during moonrise from some parts of North America, some parts of the Pacific Ocean and New Zealand, completely visible in Central and South America, some parts of North America, some parts of Western Africa as well as the extreme part of the South-West coast of South Africa, and visible during moonset from southwestern Europe, most of Africa (except Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and a strip of North Eastern Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia), and some parts of the Indian Ocean.

Visibility map

Gallery

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  Moscow, Idaho, 5:38 UTC

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2020

• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 10 January.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 5 June.
• An annular solar eclipse on 21 June.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 5 July.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on 30 November.
• A total solar eclipse on 14 December.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020
Descending node					Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	2016 Aug 18	Penumbral	1.56406		114	2017 Feb 11	Penumbral	−1.02548
119	2017 Aug 07	Partial	0.86690		124	2018 Jan 31	Total	−0.30143
129	2018 Jul 27	Total	0.11681		134	2019 Jan 21	Total	0.36842
139	2019 Jul 16	Partial	−0.64300		144	2020 Jan 10	Penumbral	1.07270
149	2020 Jul 05	Penumbral	−1.36387
Last set	2016 Sep 16				Last set	2016 Mar 23
Next set	2020 Jun 05				Next set	2020 Nov 30

Saros series

It is part of Saros cycle 149.^{[citation needed]}

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 156.

July 1, 2011	July 11, 2029

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses

References

External links

• 2020 Jul 05 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
• Hermit eclipse: Saros cycle 149
• Hermit eclipse: 5 Jul 2020 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse