October 2050 lunar eclipse
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The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | October 30, 2050 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.4435 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.0549 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 127 (44 of 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 34 minutes, 30 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 192 minutes, 51 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 313 minutes, 8 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Sunday, October 30, 2050, with an umbral magnitude of 1.0549. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon's shadow is smaller. Occurring about 1.9 days after perigee (on October 28, 2050, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
This lunar eclipse is the second of a tetrad, with four total lunar eclipses in series, the others being on May 6, 2050; April 26, 2051; and October 19, 2051.
During the eclipse, NGC 877 will be occulted by the Moon over the southeast Pacific Ocean, South America and the Atlantic Ocean. Deep-sky objects are rarely occulted during a total eclipse from any given spot on Earth.: 161