Total lunar eclipse of 2007 August 28 The beginning of the eclipse visibly in Northern and South America, the extreme east of Australia, New Zealand, part of Antarctica (on the part of Pacific Ocean), in Sargasso sea and Pacific Ocean. The end of the eclipse visibly in east half of Asia, the western part of Northern America, Australia and New Zealand, part of Antarctica (on the part of Pacific Ocean), the eastern Arctic Ocean, eastern part of Indian and Pacific Oceans. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2007, August 28, 10 25 39.9 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 26 25.077 22 26 25.077 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9.118 +130.273 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9 46 07.02 -10 00 26.96 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . -52.86 +967.52 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.71 59 28.96 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 15 49.96 16 12.52 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . August 28, 7 52.1 340.35 Moon enters umbra . . . . . . . . 8 50.9 340.26 Moon enters totality . . . . . . . 9 52.0 340.16 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 10 37.3 340.09 Moon leaves totality . . . . . . . 11 22.9 340.02 Moon leaves umbra . . . . . . . . 12 24.0 339.93 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 13 22.6 339.85 -------------------------------------------- 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 | 50 57.2 | -10 30.0 | 133 10.6 W Last | 254 50.3 | - 9 32.3 | 175 20.0 E Magnitude of the eclipse 1.479 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4618.33 " Angular radius of the umbra 2680.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |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 | | 7 50| 5651| 2.111| 55.4| - | - !10 50| 876| 0.327| 303.9| 1.426| 2.422 | | | | | ! | | | | | 8 00| 5320| 1.987| 54.9| - | 0.135!11 00| 1079| 0.402| 288.1| 1.323| 2.319 10| 4990| 1.864| 54.3| - | 0.305! 10| 1336| 0.498| 277.8| 1.191| 2.187 20| 4659| 1.740| 53.7| - | 0.475! 20| 1622| 0.605| 271.0| 1.044| 2.040 30| 4330| 1.617| 52.9| - | 0.645! 30| 1924| 0.718| 266.3| 0.889| 1.885 40| 4001| 1.494| 52.1| - | 0.814! 40| 2236| 0.834| 262.8| 0.729| 1.725 50| 3674| 1.372| 51.0| - | 0.982! 50| 2553| 0.952| 260.2| 0.566| 1.562 | | | | | ! | | | | | 9 00| 3347| 1.250| 49.8| 0.153| 1.150!12 00| 2875| 1.072| 258.2| 0.401| 1.396 10| 3022| 1.128| 48.4| 0.320| 1.317! 10| 3200| 1.193| 256.6| 0.234| 1.230 20| 2700| 1.008| 46.6| 0.486| 1.483! 20| 3526| 1.314| 255.3| 0.066| 1.062 30| 2381| 0.889| 44.3| 0.650| 1.647! 30| 3855| 1.437| 254.2| - | 0.893 40| 2067| 0.771| 41.3| 0.811| 1.808! 40| 4184| 1.559| 253.3| - | 0.724 50| 1760| 0.657| 37.2| 0.969| 1.965! 50| 4514| 1.682| 252.5| - | 0.555 | | | | | ! | | | | | 10 00| 1466| 0.547| 31.5| 1.120| 2.116!13 00| 4845| 1.805| 251.8| - | 0.385 10| 1193| 0.445| 23.0| 1.259| 2.255! 10| 5177| 1.929| 251.2| - | 0.214 20| 961| 0.359| 10.1| 1.378| 2.374! 20| 5509| 2.052| 250.7| - | 0.044 30| 804| 0.300| 350.7| 1.459| 2.455! 30| 5842| 2.176| 250.2| - | - 40| 771| 0.288| 326.2| 1.477| 2.473! | | | | | s T - universal time ( TT - 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.