January 2000 lunar eclipse
| Total Lunar Eclipse January 21, 2000 | |
|---|---|
From New York | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Gamma | -0.2957 |
| Series (and member) | 124 (48 of 74) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | 1:16:59 |
| Partial | 3:23:19 |
| Penumbral | 5:18:12 |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | 2:04:26 UTC |
| U1 | 3:01:50 UTC |
| U2 | 4:05:01 UTC |
| Greatest | 4:43:31 UTC |
| U3 | 5:22:00 UTC |
| U4 | 6:25:09 UTC |
| P4 | 7:22:38 UTC |
 The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Saggitarius | |
A total lunar eclipse took place on January 21, 2000, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2000.
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 109 | 1998 Aug 08 |
Penumbral |
114 | 1999 Jan 31 |
Penumbral | |
| 119 | 1999 Jul 28 |
Partial |
124 | 2000 Jan 21 |
Total | |
| 129 | 2000 Jul 16 |
Total |
134 |
2001 Jan 09 |
Total | |
| 139 |
2001 Jul 05 |
Partial |
144 | 2001 Dec 30 |
Penumbral | |
| 149 | 2002 Jun 24 |
Penumbral | ||||
| Last set | 1998 Sep 06 | Last set | 1998 Mar 13 | |||
| Next set | 2002 May 26 | Next set | 2002 Nov 20 | |||
Tritos series
The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.
This series produces 20 total eclipses between April 24, 1967 and August 1, 2167, only being partial on November 19, 2021.
| Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart | |
| 115 | 1901 Oct 27 |
Partial |
116 | 1912 Sep 26 |
Partial | |
| 117 | 1923 Aug 26 |
Partial |
118 | 1934 Jul 26 |
Partial | |
| 119 | 1945 Jun 25 |
Partial |
120 | 1956 May 24 |
Partial | |
| 121 | 1967 Apr 24 |
Total |
122 | 1978 Mar 24 |
Total | |
| 123 | 1989 Feb 20 |
Total |
124 | 2000 Jan 21 |
Total | |
| 125 | 2010 Dec 21 |
Total |
126 | 2021 Nov 19 |
Partial | |
| 127 | 2032 Oct 18 |
Total |
128 | 2043 Sep 19 |
Total | |
| 129 | 2058 Jun 6 |
Total |
130 | 2069 May 6 |
Total | |
| 131 | 2080 Apr 4 |
Total |
132 | 2091 Mar 5 |
Total | |
See also
External links
- Saros cycle 124
- 2000 Jan 21 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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