Total Lunar Eclipse of 2000 January 21 The beginning of the eclipse visible in Europe, western and south-western Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Greenland,the Antarctic peninsula, the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the eastern Pacific Ocean. The end of the eclipse visible in Europe ( except for the south-east ), extreme northern and north-eastern Asia, north-western Africa, North America, South America, Greenland, Antarctic peninsula, the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and most of the Pacific Ocean. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2000, January 21, 4 47 08.7 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . 20 10 33.530 8 10 33.530 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . +10.577 +157.962 o , ,, o , ,, Declination . . . . . . . . . -20 03 18.19 +19 45 12.44 ,, ,, Hourly motion . . . . . . . +32.75 -277.77 ,, , ,, Equatorial horizontal parallax 8.94 60 46.78 , ,, , ,, Apparent semidiameter . . . . 16 15.22 16 33.73 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra January 21, 2 02.8 13.28 Moon enters umbra 3 01.3 13.50 Moon enters totality 4 04.5 13.75 Greatest eclipse 4 43.5 13.89 Moon leaves totality 5 22.4 14.04 Moon leaves umbra 6 25.6 14.28 Moon leaves penumbra 7 24.3 14.49 ----------------------------------------------------- Contacts| Position |The Moon being in the Zenith in of Umbra| Angles |------------------------------- with Limb| from the | | of Moon |North Point| Latitude | Longitude ---------|-----------|--------------|---------------- | o , | o , | o , First | 79 31.0 | +20 00.6 | 43 39.2 W Last | 293 54.6 | +19 44.7 | 92 37.8 W Magnitude of the eclipse 1.328 ,, Angular radius of the penumbra 4723.48 ,, Angular radius of the umbra 2734.03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | Magnitudes of I | | | | Magnitudes of T | s | d | P |---------------I T | s | d | P |--------------- | | | | umbral| penum.I | | | | umbral| penum. | | | |eclipse|eclipseI | | | |eclipse|eclipse -----|-----|-----|-----|-------|-------I-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|------- h m| ,,| | o | | I h m| ,,| | o | | 2 00| 5814|2.124| 85.4| - | - I 4 50| 1102|0.403|354.8| 1.316 | 2.316 10| 5471|1.999| 84.8| - | 0.125 I | | | | | 20| 5129|1.874| 84.0| - | 0.297 I 5 00| 1223|0.447|338.6| 1.255 | 2.256 30| 4788|1.750| 83.2| - | 0.469 I 10| 1421|0.520|326.2| 1.157 | 2.158 40| 4448|1.625| 82.2| - | 0.640 I 20| 1670|0.611|317.1| 1.032 | 2.033 50| 4109|1.502| 81.1| - | 0.810 I 30| 1949|0.713|310.5| 0.892 | 1.893 | | | | | I 40| 2249|0.823|305.6| 0.742 | 1.743 3 00| 3773|1.379| 79.7| - | 0.979 I 50| 2560|0.937|301.9| 0.585 | 1.587 10| 3440|1.257| 78.1| 0.146 | 1.146 I | | | | | 20| 3110|1.137| 76.1| 0.312 | 1.312 I 6 00| 2881|1.054|299.0| 0.424 | 1.426 30| 2784|1.018| 73.6| 0.475 | 1.475 I 10| 3207|1.174|296.7| 0.260 | 1.262 40| 2466|0.902| 70.5| 0.635 | 1.635 I 20| 3537|1.295|294.8| 0.094 | 1.095 50| 2157|0.789| 66.5| 0.790 | 1.790 I 30| 3871|1.417|293.3| - | 0.927 | | | | | I 40| 4207|1.540|292.0| - | 0.758 4 00| 1863|0.681| 61.2| 0.937 | 1.938 I 50| 4545|1.664|290.9| - | 0.588 10| 1591|0.582| 53.9| 1.073 | 2.074 I | | | | | 20| 1355|0.495| 43.9| 1.191 | 2.192 I 7 00| 4885|1.788|290.0| - | 0.417 30| 1177|0.430| 30.2| 1.279 | 2.280 I 10| 5226|1.913|289.2| - | 0.245 40| 1085|0.397| 13.1| 1.324 | 2.325 I 20| 5567|2.038|288.4| - | 0.073 | | | | | I 30| 5910|2.163|287.8| - | - T - universal time (TDT-UT1= 63.9s); s - the angular distance between the centers of the Moon and the shadow; d - the linear distance between the Moon's center and that of the shadow in terms of the shadow's radius; P - the position angle of the Moon's disk semi-diameter directed towards the shadow's center.