December 1982 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on December 30, 1982. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour exactly. The Moon was 18% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 16 minutes in total.[1] This was a supermoon since perigee was on the same day. It also was a blue moon, the second full moon of December for the eastern hemisphere where the previous full moon was on December 1.[2]

Total Lunar Eclipse
December 30, 1982
(No photo)

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series134 (25 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:00:03
Partial3:15:53
Penumbral5:10:34
Contacts
P18:53:27 UTC
U19:50:48
U210:58:43
Greatest11:29:37
U311:58:46
U413:06:41
P414:04:01

Visibility

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

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 141.

December 24, 1973 January 4, 1992

See also

Notes
  1. Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 134
  2. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/super-blue-blood-moon-explained-space-astronomy-science/
  3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


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