February 2017 lunar eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 11, 2017
From Rabka-Zdrój, Poland, 0:51 UTC
The moon passes west to east through the earth's southern penumbral shadow.
Series (and member)	114 (59 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	4:19:10
Contacts (UTC)
P1	22:34:16 (Feb 10)
Greatest	0:45:03
P4	2:53:26

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on February 11, 2017, the first of two lunar eclipses in 2017. It was not quite a total penumbral lunar eclipse. It occurred the same day as comet 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková made a close approach to Earth (0.08318 AU). It also occurred on the Lantern Festival, the first since February 9, 2009.

Visibility

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

View of earth from moon during greatest eclipse

Visibility map

Gallery

• 
  Time lapse images from Melbourne, Florida
• 
  Kissimmee, Florida, 0:00 UTC
• 
  Tampa, Florida, 0:11 UTC
• 
  DuPage County, Illinois, 1:23 UTC

Related eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
109	2016 Aug 18	Penumbral		114	2017 Feb 11	Penumbral
119	2017 Aug 07	Partial		124	2018 Jan 31	Total
129	2018 Jul 27	Total		134	2019 Jan 21	Total
139	2019 Jul 16	Partial		144	2020 Jan 10	Penumbral
149	2020 Jul 05	Penumbral
Last set	2016 Sep 16			Last set	2016 Mar 23
Next set	2020 Jun 05			Next set	2020 Nov 30

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lunar eclipse of 2017 February 11.

• 2017 Feb 11 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
• 11 Feb 2017 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
• Pakistan to witness lunar eclipse on February 11