Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2006 September 7 The beginning of the eclipse visible in Eurasia except the west Europe, Africa except the extreme western part, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand, the Indian Ocean part of Antarctica, the western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. The end of the eclipse visible in Eurasia, Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean part of Australia, the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2006, September 7, 18 00 00.0 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 04 39.405 23 04 39.405 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +8.997 +135.862 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +5 55 11.10 -6 59 43.33 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . -56.21 +1071.86 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.73 61 22.05 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 15 52.37 16 43.34 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . September 7, 16 42.5 338.84 Moon enters umbra . . . . . . . . 18 05.4 338.76 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 18 51.3 338.72 Moon leaves umbra . . . . . . . . 19 37.8 338.68 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 21 00.5 338.61 -------------------------------------------- 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 | 357 24.6 | - 7 00.9 | 88 11.0 E Last | 305 39.5 | - 6 33.2 | 65 54.2 E Magnitude of the eclipse 0.188 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4736.02 " Angular radius of the umbra 2793.41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |Magnitudes of! | | | |Magnitudes of T | s | d | P |-------------! T | s | d | P |------------- | | | |umbral| penum. | | | |umbral| penum. | | | eclipse|eclipse | | | eclipse|eclipse -----|-----|------|------|------|------!-----|-----|------|------|------|------ h m| "| | o | | ! h m| "| | o | | 16 40| 5800| 2.077| 25.8| - | - !19 00| 3424| 1.226| 326.4| 0.181| 1.149 50| 5515| 1.975| 23.6| - | 0.106! 10| 3475| 1.244| 320.6| 0.157| 1.125 | | | | | ! 20| 3561| 1.275| 314.9| 0.114| 1.082 17 00| 5239| 1.876| 21.2| - | 0.244! 30| 3680| 1.317| 309.5| 0.056| 1.024 10| 4973| 1.781| 18.5| - | 0.376! 40| 3829| 1.371| 304.6| - | 0.950 20| 4720| 1.690| 15.5| - | 0.502! 50| 4004| 1.433| 300.0| - | 0.863 30| 4480| 1.604| 12.2| - | 0.621! | | | | | 40| 4257| 1.524| 8.5| - | 0.733!20 00| 4202| 1.504| 295.8| - | 0.765 50| 4053| 1.451| 4.5| - | 0.834! 10| 4421| 1.582| 292.1| - | 0.656 | | | | | ! 20| 4657| 1.667| 288.7| - | 0.539 18 00| 3872| 1.386| 0.0| - | 0.924! 30| 4907| 1.756| 285.6| - | 0.415 10| 3716| 1.330| 355.1| 0.034| 1.002! 40| 5170| 1.850| 282.8| - | 0.284 20| 3589| 1.285| 349.9| 0.097| 1.066! 50| 5444| 1.948| 280.3| - | 0.148 30| 3494| 1.251| 344.3| 0.145| 1.113! | | | | | 40| 3434| 1.229| 338.4| 0.175| 1.143!21 00| 5727| 2.050| 278.1| - | 0.007 50| 3411| 1.221| 332.5| 0.188| 1.156! 10| 6018| 2.154| 276.0| - | - 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.