Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2006 March 14-15 The beginning of the eclipse visible in Europe, Asia except the extreme east, Africa, Madagascar, western Australia, extreme eastern South America, Greenland, the Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica, the western Arctic Ocean, the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The end of the eclipse visible in Europe, south-western Asia, Africa, Ma- dagaskar, North America except the extreme north-west, South America, Green- land, the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, the extreme west of Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the eastern Pacific Ocean. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2006, March 14, 22 40 09.5 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 38 43.745 11 38 43.745 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9.156 +104.867 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 18 04.26 +3 21 16.38 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +59.19 -853.70 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.84 54 07.80 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 16 05.10 14 45.02 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . March 14, 21 21.7 21.79 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 23 47.5 21.82 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . March 15, 2 13.7 21.85 -------------------------------------------- Contacts| Position |The Moon being in the Zenith in of Penumbra| Angles |------------------------------- with Limb| from the | | of Moon |North Point| Latitude | Longitude ---------|-----------|--------------|---------------- | o ' | o ' | o ' First | 158 46.4 | + 3 41.3 | 41 19.9 E Last | 259 23.4 | + 2 31.6 | 29 44.4 W Magnitude of the eclipse 1.054 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4306.43 " Angular radius of the umbra 2337.88 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |Magnitudes of! | | | |Magnitudes of T | s | d | P | Penumbral ! T | s | d | P | Penumbral | | | | Eclipse ! | | | | Eclipse -----|-----|------|------|-------------!-----|-----|------|------|------------- h m| "| | o | ! h m| "| | o | 21 20| 5217| 2.232| 158.4| - ! 0 00| 3334| 1.426| 214.9| 1.045 30| 5009| 2.143| 160.4| 0.097 ! 10| 3373| 1.443| 219.6| 1.024 40| 4808| 2.057| 162.6| 0.211 ! 20| 3434| 1.469| 224.1| 0.990 50| 4614| 1.974| 164.9| 0.320 ! 30| 3514| 1.503| 228.4| 0.945 | | | | ! 40| 3614| 1.545| 232.5| 0.889 22 00| 4428| 1.895| 167.5| 0.425 ! 50| 3731| 1.595| 236.3| 0.824 10| 4252| 1.819| 170.2| 0.524 ! | | | | 20| 4087| 1.749| 173.2| 0.617 ! 1 00| 3864| 1.652| 239.9| 0.749 30| 3934| 1.683| 176.5| 0.704 ! 10| 4011| 1.715| 243.3| 0.666 40| 3794| 1.623| 180.0| 0.783 ! 20| 4170| 1.783| 246.4| 0.576 50| 3669| 1.570| 183.7| 0.854 ! 30| 4342| 1.856| 249.3| 0.480 | | | | ! 40| 4523| 1.934| 251.9| 0.378 23 00| 3561| 1.523| 187.7| 0.915 ! 50| 4713| 2.015| 254.3| 0.271 10| 3471| 1.485| 191.9| 0.966 ! | | | | 20| 3400| 1.455| 196.3| 1.006 ! 2 00| 4911| 2.100| 256.6| 0.159 30| 3351| 1.433| 200.8| 1.034 ! 10| 5116| 2.187| 258.7| 0.043 40| 3323| 1.421| 205.5| 1.051 ! 20| 5327| 2.277| 260.6| - 50| 3317| 1.419| 210.2| 1.054 ! | | | | s T - universal time ( TDT - UT1 = 66.0 ); 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.