Total lunar eclipse of 2014, April 15 The beginning of the eclipse is visible from the extreme western Africa, Northern and South America, south of Greenland, Antarctica from outside the South America, Atlantic, and eastern Silent oceans. The end of the eclipse is visible from Northern and South America (except their east parts), eastern of Australia and New Zealand, Pacific coast of Ant- arctica, Pacific ocean. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2014, April 15, 7 55 10.4 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 33 41.496 13 33 41.496 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . + 9.247 +128.584 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . + 9 46 36.04 -10 04 26.78 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +53.58 -549.09 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.77 56 56.66 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 15 56.57 15 31.03 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . April 15, 4 51.9 23.20 Moon enters umbra . . . . . . . . 5 57.8 23.11 Moon enters totality . . . . . . . 7 06.2 23.01 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 7 45.7 22.95 Moon leaves totality . . . . . . . 8 24.9 22.89 Moon leaves umbra . . . . . . . . 9 33.5 22.78 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 10 39.3 22.68 ---------------------------------------------- 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 | 88 28.8 | - 9 50.3 | 90 23.8 W Last | 302 56.4 | -10 23.5 | 142 32.3 W Magnitude of the eclipse 1.299 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4468.64 " Angular radius of the umbra 2517.79 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | 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 | | 4 50| 5450| 2.168| 95.1| - | - | 7 50| 1039| 0.413| 8.4| 1.288| 2.336 | | | | | | | | | | | 5 00| 5151| 2.049| 94.4| - | 0.131 | 8 00| 1120| 0.445| 352.7| 1.245| 2.293 10| 4853| 1.930| 93.7| - | 0.291 | 10| 1271| 0.505| 339.9| 1.165| 2.212 20| 4557| 1.812| 92.9| - | 0.451 | 20| 1470| 0.584| 330.2| 1.058| 2.106 30| 4261| 1.694| 91.9| - | 0.610 | 30| 1701| 0.675| 322.9| 0.935| 1.983 40| 3966| 1.577| 90.8| - | 0.769 | 40| 1953| 0.775| 317.5| 0.801| 1.848 50| 3673| 1.460| 89.6| - | 0.927 | 50| 2218| 0.880| 313.3| 0.659| 1.706 | | | | | | | | | | | 6 00| 3381| 1.344| 88.1| 0.035| 1.083 | 9 00| 2493| 0.989| 310.0| 0.512| 1.560 10| 3093| 1.229| 86.4| 0.190| 1.239 | 10| 2773| 1.101| 307.4| 0.362| 1.409 20| 2807| 1.116| 84.3| 0.343| 1.392 | 20| 3059| 1.214| 305.3| 0.209| 1.256 30| 2526| 1.004| 81.8| 0.494| 1.543 | 30| 3348| 1.328| 303.5| 0.054| 1.101 40| 2252| 0.895| 78.6| 0.642| 1.690 | 40| 3640| 1.444| 302.0| - | 0.945 50| 1986| 0.789| 74.5| 0.785| 1.833 | 50| 3934| 1.561| 300.7| - | 0.787 | | | | | | | | | | | 7 00| 1732| 0.688| 69.3| 0.921| 1.969 |10 00| 4230| 1.678| 299.6| - | 0.629 10| 1498| 0.595| 62.3| 1.046| 2.094 | 10| 4527| 1.795| 298.7| - | 0.469 20| 1294| 0.514| 53.0| 1.155| 2.203 | 20| 4826| 1.913| 297.8| - | 0.310 30| 1136| 0.451| 40.6| 1.238| 2.287 | 30| 5125| 2.032| 297.1| - | 0.149 40| 1045| 0.415| 25.2| 1.286| 2.334 | 40| 5425| 2.151| 296.4| - | - T - universal time ( TDT - UT1 = 67.0s); 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.