Total Lunar Eclipse of 2000 July 16
The beginning of the eclipse visible in eastern Asia, the western coast of
North America, the extreme south of South America, Australia, New Zealand, An-
tarctica, the Pacific Ocean, and the south-eastern Indian Ocean.
The end of the eclipse visible in most of Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
Antarctica, eastern Africa, Madagaskar, the Indian Ocean, and western half
of the Pacific Ocean.
Universal time of geocentric opposition
h m s
in right ascension 2000, July 16, 13 55 50.3
Sun Moon
h m s h m s
Right ascension . . . . . . . 7 44 54.756 19 44 54.756
s s
Hourly motion . . . . . . . +10.072 +126.809
o , ,, o , ,,
Declination . . . . . . . . . +21 15 02.25 -21 13 24.24
,, ,,
Hourly motion . . . . . . . -25.16 +149.82
,, , ,,
Equatorial horizontal parallax 8.65 54 01.23
, ,, , ,,
Apparent semidiameter . . . . 15 44.19 14 43.23
Circumstances of the Eclipse
Position Angles
of the Moon's axis
h m o
Moon enters penumbra July 16, 10 46.4 348.92
Moon enters umbra 11 57.0 348.70
Moon enters totality 13 01.9 348.49
Greatest eclipse 13 55.6 348.32
Moon leaves totality 14 49.3 348.15
Moon leaves umbra 15 54.1 347.94
Moon leaves penumbra 17 04.7 347.72
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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 | 87 44.6 | -21 26.0 | 178 42.4 W
Last | 263 31.5 | -21 16.1 | 123 57.6 E
Magnitude of the eclipse 1.770
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Angular radius of the penumbra 4277.88
,,
Angular radius of the umbra 2351.70
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| | | | 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 | |
10 40| 5335|2.269| 87.3| - | - I14 00| 156|0.066|226.9| 1.740 | 2.830
50| 5062|2.153| 87.3| - | 0.056 I 10| 407|0.173|251.7| 1.601 | 2.691
| | | | | I 20| 675|0.287|257.2| 1.449 | 2.539
11 00| 4790|2.037| 87.4| - | 0.210 I 30| 945|0.402|259.6| 1.296 | 2.386
10| 4517|1.921| 87.4| - | 0.364 I 40| 1217|0.518|260.9| 1.142 | 2.232
20| 4244|1.805| 87.5| - | 0.519 I 50| 1489|0.633|261.7| 0.988 | 2.078
30| 3971|1.689| 87.5| - | 0.673 I | | | | |
40| 3699|1.573| 87.6| - | 0.828 I15 00| 1762|0.749|262.2| 0.834 | 1.924
50| 3426|1.457| 87.7| - | 0.982 I 10| 2034|0.865|262.6| 0.680 | 1.770
| | | | | I 20| 2307|0.981|262.9| 0.526 | 1.616
12 00| 3153|1.341| 87.8| 0.046 | 1.136 I 30| 2579|1.097|263.2| 0.371 | 1.461
10| 2881|1.225| 87.9| 0.200 | 1.291 I 40| 2852|1.213|263.3| 0.217 | 1.307
20| 2608|1.109| 88.1| 0.355 | 1.445 I 50| 3125|1.329|263.5| 0.063 | 1.153
30| 2336|0.993| 88.3| 0.509 | 1.599 I | | | | |
40| 2063|0.877| 88.6| 0.663 | 1.754 I16 00| 3398|1.444|263.6| - | 0.998
50| 1791|0.762| 89.0| 0.817 | 1.908 I 10| 3671|1.560|263.7| - | 0.844
| | | | | I 20| 3943|1.676|263.8| - | 0.690
13 00| 1518|0.646| 89.5| 0.972 | 2.062 I 30| 4216|1.792|263.8| - | 0.535
10| 1246|0.530| 90.3| 1.126 | 2.216 I 40| 4489|1.908|263.9| - | 0.381
20| 975|0.414| 91.5| 1.280 | 2.370 I 50| 4762|2.024|263.9| - | 0.226
30| 704|0.299| 93.7| 1.433 | 2.523 I | | | | |
40| 435|0.185| 98.7| 1.585 | 2.675 I17 00| 5035|2.140|263.9| - | 0.072
50| 180|0.077|118.5| 1.728 | 2.818 I 10| 5308|2.256|264.0| - | -
T - universal time (TDT-UT1= 64.8s);
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.