IV. Partial lunar eclipse of 2026, August 28 The beginning of the eclipse is visible from Europe and western Asia, Af- rica, Greenland, South and eastern North America, on the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, from the west of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the east of the Pacific Oceans. The end of the eclipse is visible from America, the Pacific coast of An- tarctica, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2026, August 28, 4 41 48.6 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 27 02.246 22 27 02.246 s s Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9.116 +116.092 o ' " o ' " Declination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +9 42 27.22 -9 11 07.77 " " Hourly motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . -52.92 +864.27 " ' " Equatorial horizontal parallax . . . . . . 8.71 56 10.52 ' " ' " Apparent semidiameter . . . . . . . . . . 15 49.99 15 18.45 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . . . . . . . August 28, 1 24.2 340.38 Moon enters totality . . . . . . . 2 33.3 340.28 Greatest eclipse . . . . . . . . . 4 17.0 340.14 Moon leaves totality . . . . . . . 5 52.3 340.00 Moon leaves penumbra . . . . . . . 7 04.3 339.91 -------------------------------------------- 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 | 92 35.4 | - 9 45.7 | 38 56.5 W Last | 213 13.6 | - 8 57.7 | 87 13.4 W Magnitude of the eclipse 0.937 " Angular radius of the penumbra 4414.55 " Angular radius of the umbra 2477.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | |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 | | 1 20| 5420| 2.190| 80.9| - | - I 4 20| 1682| 0.679| 158.9| 0.933| 1.988 30| 5139| 2.077| 81.9| - | 0.103 I 30| 1738| 0.702| 168.7| 0.902| 1.957 40| 4861| 1.964| 83.1| - | 0.255 I 40| 1841| 0.743| 177.6| 0.847| 1.901 50| 4584| 1.852| 84.4| - | 0.406 I 50| 1983| 0.800| 185.4| 0.769| 1.824 | | | | | I | | | | | 2 00| 4310| 1.741| 85.8| - | 0.556 I 5 00| 2157| 0.871| 192.1| 0.675| 1.729 10| 4039| 1.632| 87.4| - | 0.704 I 10| 2356| 0.951| 197.7| 0.567| 1.621 20| 3771| 1.524| 89.3| - | 0.849 I 20| 2574| 1.038| 202.4| 0.448| 1.503 30| 3508| 1.417| 91.4| - | 0.993 I 30| 2806| 1.132| 206.3| 0.322| 1.376 40| 3251| 1.313| 93.9| 0.077| 1.133 I 40| 3049| 1.230| 209.7| 0.190| 1.244 50| 3001| 1.212| 96.8| 0.214| 1.269 I 50| 3302| 1.332| 212.5| 0.053| 1.107 | | | | | I | | | | | 3 00| 2760| 1.115| 100.3| 0.345| 1.401 I 6 00| 3561| 1.436| 214.9| - | 0.966 10| 2531| 1.022| 104.3| 0.470| 1.525 I 10| 3826| 1.543| 217.0| - | 0.822 20| 2317| 0.936| 109.2| 0.587| 1.642 I 20| 4095| 1.651| 218.8| - | 0.676 30| 2122| 0.857| 115.0| 0.693| 1.748 I 30| 4368| 1.761| 220.4| - | 0.527 40| 1954| 0.789| 121.8| 0.784| 1.840 I 40| 4643| 1.872| 221.8| - | 0.378 50| 1819| 0.734| 129.8| 0.858| 1.913 I 50| 4922| 1.984| 223.1| - | 0.226 | | | | | I | | | | | 4 00| 1724| 0.696| 138.9| 0.910| 1.965 I 7 00| 5202| 2.096| 224.2| - | 0.074 10| 1677| 0.677| 148.8| 0.936| 1.990 I 10| 5485| 2.210| 225.2| - | - T - universal time ( TDT - UT1 = 69.0s); 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.