July 1982 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse July 6, 1982
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	129 (36 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on July 6, 1982.

The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility

It was seen completely over North and South America, seen rising over Australia, and setting over Western Africa.

Related eclipses

There are seven eclipses in 1982, the maximum possible, including 4 partial solar eclipses: January 25, July 20, June 21, and December 15.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1980-1984

Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
109	1980 Jul 27 80px	Penumbral 80px		114	1981 Jan 20 80px	Penumbral 80px
119	1981 Jul 17 80px	Partial 80px		124	1982 Jan 09 80px	Total 80px
129	1982 Jul 06	Total		134	1982 Dec 30 80px	Total 80px
139	1983 Jun 25 80px	Partial 80px		144	1983 Dec 20 80px	Penumbral 80px
149	1984 Jun 13 80px	Penumbral 80px
Last set	1980 Aug 26			Last set	1980 Mar 13
Next set	1984 May 26			Next set	1984 Nov 20

Saros series

Lunar saros cycle series 129, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 11 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 2000 Jul 16, lasting 108 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1351 Jun 10	1513 Sep 15	1910 May 24	1946 Jun 14
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2036 Aug 7	2090 Sep 8	2469 Apr 26	2613 Jul 24

1901–2100

1910 May 24		1928 Jun 3		1946 Jun 14
80px	80px	80px	80px
1964 Jun 25		1982 Jul 6		2000 Jul 16
2018 Jul 27		2036 Aug 7		2054 Aug 18
				80px	80px
2072 Aug 28		2090 Sep 8
80px	80px	80px	80px

Inex series

The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.

This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly.

All events in this series listed below and more are total lunar eclipses.

Inex series from 1000 to 2500 AD

Ascending node		Descending node		Ascending node		Descending node
Saros	Date	Saros	Date	Saros	Date	Saros	Date
96	1027 Apr 23	97	1056 Apr 2	98	1085 Mar 14	99	1114 Feb 21
100	1143 Feb 1	101	1172 Jan 13	102	1200 Dec 22	103	1229 Dec 2
104	1258 Nov 12	105	1287 Oct 22	106	1316 Oct 2	107	1345 Sep 12
108	1374 Aug 22	109	1403 Aug 2	110	1432 Jul 13	111	1461 Jun 22
112	1490 Jun 2	113	1519 May 14	114	1548 Apr 22	115	1577 Apr 2
116	1606 Mar 24	117	1635 Mar 3	118	1664 Feb 11	119	1693 Jan 22
120	1722 Jan 2	121	1750 Dec 13	122	1779 Nov 23	123	1808 Nov 3
124	1837 Oct 13	125	1866 Sep 24	126	1895 Sep 4	127	1924 Aug 14
128	1953 Jul 26	129	1982 Jul 6	130	2011 Jun 15	131	2040 May 26
132	2069 May 6	133	2098 Apr 15	134	2127 Mar 28	135	2156 Mar 7
136	2185 Feb 14	137	2214 Jan 27	138	2243 Jan 7	139	2271 Dec 17
140	2300 Nov 27	141	2329 Nov 7	142	2358 Oct 18	143	2387 Sep 28
144	2416 Sep 7	145	2445 Aug 17	146	2474 Jul 29

See also

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

External links

• NASA: Lunar Eclipses: Past and Future
  • 1982 Jul 06 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Index to Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses, -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
    • Eclipses: 1901 to 2000
• Total Lunar Eclipse of 1982 July 06 Photo Gallery
  • Photo mideclipse
• Vulcan Eclipse End of Totality July 6, 1982, by Jerry Lodriguss

References

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