October 2032 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse will take place on October 18, 2032.[1]
| Total lunar eclipse October 18, 2032 | |
|---|---|
Ecliptic north up The moon will pass through the center of the Earth's shadow. | |
| Saros (and member) | 127 (43 of 72) |
| Gamma | |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | |
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| Penumbral | |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | |
| U1 | |
| U2 | |
| Greatest | |
| U3 | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
This is the 43rd member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the October 2014 lunar eclipse. The next event is the October 2050 lunar eclipse.
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 112 | 2031 May 07 |
Penumbral |
117 | 2031 Oct 30 |
Penumbral | |
| 122 | 2032 Apr 25 |
Total |
127 | 2032 Oct 18 |
Total | |
| 132 | 2033 Apr 14 |
Total |
137 | 2033 Oct 08 |
Total | |
| 142 | 2034 Apr 03 |
Penumbral |
147 | 2034 Sep 28 |
Partial | |
| Last set | 2031 Jun 05 | Last set | 2030 Dec 09 | |||
| Next set | 2035 Feb 22 | Next set | 2035 Aug 19 | |||
Tritos series
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 11, 2185, only being partial on November 19, 2021.
| Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2087) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart | |
| 115 | 1901 Oct 27 |
Partial |
116 | 1912 Sep 26 |
Partial | |
| 117 | 1923 Aug 26 |
Partial |
118 | 1934 Jul 26 |
Partial | |
| 119 | 1945 Jun 25 |
Partial |
120 | 1956 May 24 |
Partial | |
| 121 | 1967 Apr 24 |
Total |
122 | 1978 Mar 24 |
Total | |
| 123 | 1989 Feb 20 |
Total |
124 | 2000 Jan 21 |
Total | |
| 125 | 2010 Dec 21 |
Total |
126 | 2021 Nov 19 |
Partial | |
| 127 | 2032 Oct 18 |
Total |
128 | 2043 Sep 19 |
Total | |
| 129 | 2054 Aug 18 |
Total |
130 | 2065 Jul 17 |
Total | |
| 131 | 2076 Jun 17 |
Total |
132 | 2087 May 17 |
Total | |
| 133 | 2098 Apr 15 |
Total | ||||
Saros series
Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 134 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
| Greatest | First | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 102 minutes. |
Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 1275 Jul 09 | 1473 Nov 04 | 1798 May 29 | 1834 Jun 21 | |
| Last | ||||
| Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
| 1960 Sep 05 | 2068 Nov 09 | 2429 Jun 17 | 2555 Sep 02 | |
| 1906 Aug 04 | 1924 Aug 14 | 1942 Aug 26 | |||
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| 1960 Sep 05 | 1978 Sep 16 | 1996 Sep 27 | |||
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| 2014 Oct 08 | 2032 Oct 18 | 2050 Oct 30 | |||
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See also
- List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
External links
- 2032 Oct 18 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
