January 2000 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse January 21, 2000
From New York
240px 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
240px 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 80px	Penumbral 80px	114	1999 Jan 31 80px	Penumbral 80px
119	1999 Jul 28 80px	Partial 80px	124	2000 Jan 21 80px	Total 80px
129	2000 Jul 16	Total	134	2001 Jan 09 80px	Total 80px
139	2001 Jul 05 80px	Partial 80px	144	2001 Dec 30 80px	Penumbral 80px
149	2002 Jun 24 80px	Penumbral 80px

Last set	1998 Sep 06		Last set	1998 Mar 13

Next set	2002 May 26		Next set	2002 Nov 20

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 80px	Partial 80px	116	1912 Sep 26 80px	Partial 80px
117	1923 Aug 26 80px	Partial 80px	118	1934 Jul 26 80px	Partial 80px
119	1945 Jun 25 80px	Partial 80px	120	1956 May 24	Partial
121	1967 Apr 24 80px	Total 80px	122	1978 Mar 24	Total
123	1989 Feb 20 80px	Total 80px	124	2000 Jan 21 80px	Total 80px
125	2010 Dec 21	Total	126	2021 Nov 19 80px	Partial 80px
127	2032 Oct 18 80px	Total 80px	128	2043 Sep 19 80px	Total 80px
129	2058 Jun 6	Total	130	2069 May 6	Total
131	2080 Apr 4 80px	Total 80px	132	2091 Mar 5 80px	Total 80px