Total lunar eclipse of 2008 February 21 The beginning of the eclipse visibly in Europe, south-western Asia, Afri- ca, Madagascar, Northern America (except the extreme northwest), South Ameri- ca, in the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, in the extreme West of Indian Ocean, South-eastern Pacific Ocean, western Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean. The end of the eclipse visibly in the extreme south-western Europe, north- west part of Africa, Northern and South America, Greenland, peninsula Antarc- tic, the American part of Arctic Ocean, east half of Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2008, February 21, 3 48 25.2 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 15 33.615 10 15 33.615 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9.580 +121.032 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -10 48 11.13 +10 22 40.19 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +53.98 -878.48 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.89 57 07.90 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 16 10.50 15 34.09 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . February 21, 0 34.8 19.08 Moon enters umbra . . . . . . . . 1 42.7 19.19 Moon enters totality . . . . . . . 3 00.4 19.32 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 3 26.0 19.36 Moon leaves totality . . . . . . . 3 51.1 19.40 Moon leaves umbra . . . . . . . . 5 09.0 19.52 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 6 17.2 19.63 -------------------------------------------- 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 | 93 05.1 | +10 57.6 | 23 13.5 W Last | 320 11.1 | +10 06.9 | 73 12.4 W Magnitude of the eclipse 1.109 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4495.87 " Angular radius of the umbra 2516.07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |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 | | 0 30| 5577| 2.212| 102.1| - | - ! 3 30| 1374| 0.546| 21.5| 1.106| 2.165 40| 5279| 2.095| 101.3| - | 0.083! 40| 1434| 0.570| 9.2| 1.073| 2.133 50| 4983| 1.977| 100.4| - | 0.242! 50| 1554| 0.618| 358.4| 1.009| 2.068 | | | | | ! | | | | | 1 00| 4688| 1.860| 99.4| - | 0.399! 4 00| 1720| 0.684| 349.4| 0.920| 1.980 10| 4395| 1.744| 98.2| - | 0.556! 10| 1921| 0.764| 342.1| 0.812| 1.872 20| 4104| 1.629| 96.9| - | 0.711! 20| 2148| 0.854| 336.3| 0.692| 1.751 30| 3816| 1.515| 95.4| - | 0.865! 30| 2392| 0.951| 331.6| 0.561| 1.621 40| 3531| 1.402| 93.6| - | 1.018! 40| 2649| 1.053| 327.8| 0.424| 1.484 50| 3250| 1.290| 91.5| 0.109| 1.168! 50| 2915| 1.160| 324.7| 0.281| 1.341 | | | | | ! | | | | | 2 00| 2974| 1.181| 89.1| 0.256| 1.315! 5 00| 3189| 1.269| 322.1| 0.135| 1.195 10| 2705| 1.074| 86.1| 0.400| 1.459! 10| 3468| 1.380| 320.0| - | 1.045 20| 2445| 0.971| 82.5| 0.539| 1.598! 20| 3751| 1.493| 318.2| - | 0.894 30| 2197| 0.873| 78.0| 0.671| 1.730! 30| 4038| 1.607| 316.6| - | 0.740 40| 1966| 0.781| 72.4| 0.794| 1.853! 40| 4327| 1.722| 315.2| - | 0.585 50| 1759| 0.699| 65.5| 0.904| 1.964! 50| 4619| 1.838| 314.0| - | 0.429 | | | | | ! | | | | | 3 00| 1584| 0.630| 56.8| 0.997| 2.056! 6 00| 4912| 1.955| 313.0| - | 0.272 10| 1454| 0.578| 46.3| 1.066| 2.125! 10| 5206| 2.072| 312.1| - | 0.114 20| 1381| 0.549| 34.3| 1.103| 2.163! 20| 5502| 2.190| 311.3| - | - T - universal time ( TDT - UT1 = 66.0s); 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.