A total

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 Earth ...

took place on 15 June 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second occurred on 10 December 2011. While the visual effect of a total eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse. This was a relatively rare

central lunar eclipse A central lunar eclipse is a lunar eclipse in which part of the Moon passes through the center of Earth's shadow. This type of lunar eclipse typically appears darker than other lunar eclipses. It is relatively rare. Central lunar eclipses are ...

, in which the center point of Earth's shadow passes across the moon. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on 16 July 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse was on 27 July 2018 over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia.

Visibility and viewing

In western Asia,

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, and the Philippines, the lunar eclipse was visible just before sunrise. It was very visible in the clear and cloudless night sky throughout eastern and southeast Asia. Africa,

far eastern Russia The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...

and Europe witnessed the whole event even in the late stages (as in partial lunar eclipse). The

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(including North and northwestern South America) missed the eclipse completely (except in most areas) because it occurred at moonset.

Photo gallery

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, France File:Acropoclipse.jpg,

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2011

* A partial solar eclipse on 4 January. * A partial solar eclipse on 1 June. * A total lunar eclipse on 15 June. * A partial solar eclipse on 1 July. * A partial solar eclipse on 25 November. * A total lunar eclipse on 10 December. It was preceded by the partial solar eclipse of January 4, 2011, and the partial solar eclipse of 1 June 2011.

Semester series

This eclipse is the center of nine lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. Each eclipse in the series repeats after one semester (6 lunations or 177 days) occurring at alternating nodes.

Saros series

Tritos series

Inex series

Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of May 4, 2004 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of July 27, 2018

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 137.

Notes

References

* Bao-Lin Liu, ''Canon of Lunar Eclipses 1500 B.C.-A.D. 3000'', 1992

External links

Live-webcast of the lunar eclipse on 15 June 2011
University of Applied Sciences Offenburg/Germany

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110616004727/http://sky-live.tv/index-en.html Live eclipse webcasts Ciclope group/Technical University of Madrid
Live eclipse webcasts
Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal
Hermit eclipse: 2011-06-15

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*** ttp://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE2001-2100.htmlLunar Eclipses: 2001 to 2100
Live webcast by Tübitak
– the Turkish National Observatory
Live webcast from the SLOOH Space Camera and Google Earth
The eclipse stages are also being incorporated into a Google doodle operating during the eclipse. ;Webcast * The Central Lunar Eclipse was shown live through WEBCAST – By Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal(SWAN) Siliguri, West Benga

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* By Eclipse Chaser Athaenium New Delh

* By Astronation.ne

* By Ciclope group and Shelio

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