December 1992 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, December 9, 1992, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1992, the first was a partial lunar eclipse on Monday, June 15.

Total Lunar Eclipse
December 9, 1992

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Gamma0.3144
Series (and member)125 (47 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:13:53
Partial3:28:44
Penumbral5:34:04
Contacts
P120:57:01 UTC
U121:59:45
U223:07:10
Greatest23:44:06
U30:21:03
U41:28:29
P42:31:05

Visibility

It is visibly seen throughout the world including Americas (North and South America), Europe, Africa, Asia and Western Australia (including western New Guinea). The lunar eclipse was witnessed in the Philippines on the midday hours of December 10, two years after the total lunar eclipse happened on February 9, 1990.

According to Fred Espenak, this was the darkest eclipse in a decade, caused by the June 15, 1991 eruptions of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.[1]

Eclipses of 1992

Lunar year series

Saros series

Lunar saros series 125, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 26 total lunar eclipses. The first was on June 17, 1704 and the last will be on March 19, 2155. The longest totality occurrence of this series (7th) was on August 22, 1812 when totality lasted one hour and 42 minutes.[2]

This is the 17th of 26 total lunar eclipses in series 125. The previous occurrence was on November 29, 1974 and the next will occur on December 21, 2010.

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 132.

December 4, 1983 December 14, 2001

See also

Notes
  1. Totality - 1992 Dec
  2. Listing of Eclipses of cycle 125
  3. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros



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