Total lunar eclipse of 2022, May 16 The beginning of the eclipse is visible from Europe, Africa, eastern North America and South America, Antarctica, the west of the Indian, the east of the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. The end of the eclipse is visible from America, Antarctica, the eastern Pa- cific and Atlantic oceans. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2022, May 16, 4 20 54.0 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 31 51.043 15 31 51.043 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9.902 +148.890 ° ' " ° ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +19 05 18.82 -19 21 34.78 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +34.62 -731.43 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.70 60 33.25 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 15 49.23 16 30.04 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . May 16, 1 30.5 12.90 Moon enters umbra . . . . . . . . 2 27.4 12.72 Moon enters totality . . . . . . . 3 28.5 12.51 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 4 11.5 12.37 Moon leaves totality . . . . . . . 4 54.3 12.23 Moon leaves umbra . . . . . . . . 5 55.6 12.02 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 6 52.4 11.82 -------------------------------------------- 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 | 95 37.9 │ -19 05.4 │ 38 50.7 W Last | 303 26.3 │ -19 48.0 │ 88 53.1 W Magnitude of the eclipse 1.417 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4682.70 " Angular radius of the umbra 2746.27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |Magnitudes of I | | | |Magnitudes of T | s | d | P |--------------I T | s | d | P |------------- | | | |umbral| penum.I | | | |umbral| penum. | | | eclipse|eclipseI | | | eclipse|eclipse -----+-----+------+------+------+-------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------ h m| "| | o | | I h m| "| | o | | 1 30│ 5686│ 2.072│ 100.8│ ─ │ ─ I 4 20│ 966│ 0.352│ 1.7│ 1.393│ 2.371 40│ 5344│ 1.948│ 100.1│ ─ │ 0.165 I 30│ 1122│ 0.409│ 344.5│ 1.315│ 2.293 50│ 5002│ 1.823│ 99.4│ ─ │ 0.337 I 40│ 1352│ 0.492│ 332.3│ 1.200│ 2.178 │ │ │ │ │ I 50│ 1624│ 0.591│ 323.9│ 1.063│ 2.041 2 00│ 4661│ 1.699│ 98.6│ ─ │ 0.510 I │ │ │ │ │ 10│ 4321│ 1.575│ 97.7│ ─ │ 0.681 I 5 00│ 1921│ 0.699│ 318.0│ 0.914│ 1.892 20│ 3983│ 1.451│ 96.6│ ─ │ 0.853 I 10│ 2233│ 0.813│ 313.7│ 0.757│ 1.735 30│ 3646│ 1.328│ 95.3│ 0.045│ 1.023 I 20│ 2554│ 0.930│ 310.4│ 0.595│ 1.573 40│ 3311│ 1.206│ 93.7│ 0.214│ 1.192 I 30│ 2881│ 1.049│ 307.9│ 0.430│ 1.408 50│ 2978│ 1.085│ 91.8│ 0.382│ 1.360 I 40│ 3213│ 1.169│ 305.9│ 0.263│ 1.241 │ │ │ │ │ I 50│ 3548│ 1.291│ 304.2│ 0.095│ 1.072 3 00│ 2650│ 0.965│ 89.5│ 0.548│ 1.526 I │ │ │ │ │ 10│ 2327│ 0.848│ 86.5│ 0.711│ 1.689 I 6 00│ 3885│ 1.414│ 302.9│ ─ │ 0.902 20│ 2013│ 0.733│ 82.5│ 0.870│ 1.848 I 10│ 4224│ 1.537│ 301.7│ ─ │ 0.731 30│ 1711│ 0.623│ 77.2│ 1.022│ 2.000 I 20│ 4564│ 1.661│ 300.7│ ─ │ 0.559 40│ 1430│ 0.521│ 69.6│ 1.164│ 2.142 I 30│ 4906│ 1.785│ 299.9│ ─ │ 0.387 50│ 1185│ 0.432│ 58.7│ 1.287│ 2.265 I 40│ 5248│ 1.909│ 299.1│ ─ │ 0.214 │ │ │ │ │ I 50│ 5592│ 2.034│ 298.5│ ─ │ 0.041 4 00│ 1003│ 0.365│ 43.1│ 1.377│ 2.355 I │ │ │ │ │ 10│ 921│ 0.336│ 22.8│ 1.417│ 2.395 I 7 00│ 5935│ 2.159│ 297.9│ ─ │ ─ T - universal time; 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.