A penumbral lunar eclipse took place at the Moon's ascending node on 11 February 2017, the first of two lunar eclipses in 2017. It was not quite a

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. It occurred the same day as comet

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made a close approach to Earth (0.08318 AU). It also occurred on the

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, the first since 9 February 2009. Occurring only 4.4 days after perigee (Perigee on 6 February 2017), the moon's apparent diameter was larger.

Visibility

It was visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and most of Asia.

Gallery

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, ~2:00 UTC

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2017

* A penumbral lunar eclipse on 11 February. * An annular solar eclipse on 26 February. * A partial lunar eclipse on 7 August. * A total solar eclipse on 21 August.

Lunar year series

Saros series

It is part of

Saros cycle The saros () is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros perio ...

114. Lunar Saros series 114, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 13 total lunar eclipses. First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 0971 May 13 First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 1115 Aug 07 First Total Lunar Eclipse: 1458 Feb 28 First Central Lunar Eclipse: 1530 Apr 12 Greatest Eclipse of Lunar Saros 114: 1584 May 24 Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 1638 Jun 26 Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 1674 Jul 17 Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 1890 Nov 26 Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 2233 Jun 22

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 annular solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 121 Saros cycle series 121 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 solar eclipse events. 55 of these are umbral eclipses. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node. ...

Tritos series

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of March 14, 2006 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of January 12, 2028

Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of December 31, 2009 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of March 25, 2024

References

External links

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