A partial

lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Eart ...

took place on 16 August 2008, the second of two lunar eclipses in 2008, with the first being a total eclipse on 20 February 2008. The next lunar eclipse was a penumbral eclipse occurring on 9 February 2009, while the next total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 December 2010. The moon's apparent diameter was 26.2 arcseconds smaller than the 21 February 2008 total lunar eclipse.

Eclipse Season An eclipse season is the period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Moon's tilted orbital plane ( tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane), just as Earth's we ...

This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: 1 August 2008 Total Solar Eclipse

Viewing

Parts of Australia saw it begin before sunrise, while parts of South America saw it end just after sunset. The eclipse is also seen in the

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and other parts of

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an ...

at moonset. Parts of

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, the

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and

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

saw it when it is visible. The penumbral eclipse began at 18:23 UTC, with the partial eclipse beginning at 19:36. The time of greatest eclipse was 21:10. The partial eclipse ended at 22:44, and the penumbral eclipse will ended at 23:57. The planet

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was 2 days past

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, visible in

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as an 8th magnitude "star" just two degrees west and slightly south of the moon.

Map

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2008

* An annular solar eclipse on 7 February. * A total lunar eclipse on 21 February. * A total solar eclipse on 1 August. * A partial lunar eclipse on 16 August.

Lunar year series

Saros series

Metonic cycle (19 years)

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, ''The half-saros'' This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 145 Saros cycle series 145 for solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an ...

Photo

Progression from

Oslo, Norway Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

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Brighton, Queensland Brighton is a coastal northern suburb of Brisbane, in the state of Queensland, in Australia. In the , Brighton had a population of 9,479 people. Geography Brighton and its neighbouring suburb Bald Hills are the northernmost suburbs of Brisba ...

, 20:03 UTC Image:Затмение Луны - panoramio.jpg,

Ruzsky District Ruzsky District (russian: Ру́зский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #76/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the di ...

, Russia, 20:21 UTC Image:Zio81 - Eclisse di Luna 16-08-08 (by).jpg,

Palinuro Palinuro is an Italian small town, the most populated civil parish (''frazione'') of Centola, Province of Salerno, in the Campania region. The name of the town is derived from Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas, as recorded in the fifth and sixt ...

, Italy, 20:31 UTC Image:Tel Aviv Lunar Ec 16th August IMG 0073.JPG,

Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, 20:43 UTC Image:2008-08-16 lunar eclipse01.jpg,

Groningen, Netherlands Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

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Madrid, Spain Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, 20:53 UTC Image:P1040250 (web).jpg, Jaguariúna, Brazil, 21:00 UTC Image:ForsterFoto - Lunar Eclipse (by) (1).jpg, Zürich, Switzerland, 21:06 UTC Image:Lune eclipsée par la terre et les nuages.jpg,

Toulouse, France Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...

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Solna, Sweden Solna Municipality ( sv, Solna kommun or , ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in Sweden, located just north of Stockholm City Centre. Its seat is located in the town of Solna, which is a part of the Stockholm urban area. Solna is one of the ...

, 21:09 UTC Image:Partial Lunar Eclipse on 17 August 2008 (2770674184).jpg, Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka, 21:12 UTC Image:0515 am It was not a full one from here (2779973747).jpg,

Johor Bahru, Malaysia Johor Bahru (), colloquially referred to as JB, is the capital city of the state of Johor, Malaysia. It is located at the southern end of Peninsular Malaysia,along the north bank of the Straits of Johor, opposite of the city-state Singapore. ...

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Langenbernsdorf Langenbernsdorf is a village in the district of Zwickau in the Free State of Saxony. Geography To the north of Langenbernsdorf is a wood called the Werdauer Wald. Neighboring municipalities Adjacent municipalities in the district of Zwickau i ...

, Germany, 21:23 UTC Image:Moon eclipse august 2008.jpg,

Bucharest, Romania Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, 21:27 UTC Image:Lunar Eclipse in cloudy Poland – August 16, 2008 (2775294969).jpg,

Rozbórz Długi Rozbórz Długi is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruchnik, within Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Pruchnik, south-west of Jarosław Jarosław (; uk, ...

, Poland, 21:45 UTC Image:Lunar eclipse on the night of Nisf Sha'ban (2768858499).jpg,

Nasr City Nasr City ( ar, مدينة نصر ) is a district of Cairo, Egypt. It is located to the east of the Cairo Governorate and consists mostly of condominia. It was established in the 1960s as an extension to neighboring settlement of Heliop ...

, Egypt, 22:12 UTC

Notes

External links

NASA: Partial Lunar Eclipse: August 16, 2008

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Hermit eclipse (Ian Cameron Smith) Partial Lunar Eclipse: August 16, 2008

Animation of lunar eclipse 16 August 2008
* APOD August 20, 2008

Composite photos showing Earth's shadow

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