TOTAL
LUNAR ECLIPSE OF JANUARY 21 2019
Helio C.
Vital
Exhibiting an apparent diameter larger than in most eclipses, the Moon will cross the northern hemisphere
of Earth`s umbral shadow during a relatively shallow and colorful eclipse.
Well positioned in American
skies, it will
encourage observers to estimate its brightness, either to be expressed
in visual magnitudes (m~-2.6) or Danjon Numbers
(L~3.0),
and also to time crater contacts as it crosses Earth`s shadow, so that
we can calculate
the fraction contributed by the atmosphere to Earth`s umbra.
An stratosphere relatively
free of volcanic
aerosols will
conspire to provide us with
a beautiful eclipse, including
the bluish ozone fringe that
often heralds the onset of
totality.
Times for the major eclipse phases
are listed below.
ECLIPSE
PHASE |
TIME (UTC) |
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: |
02:36:14 |
Partial Eclipse Begins: |
03:33:39 |
Total
Eclipse Begins: |
04:41:09 |
Greatest Eclipse: |
05:12:20 |
Total
Eclipse Ends: |
05:43:31 |
Partial Eclipse Ends: |
06:50:59 |
Penumbral Eclipse Ends: |
07:48:23 |
**************************************************************** CONTACT TIMES FOR THE JANUARY 21 2019 TOTAL
LUNAR ECLIPSE Contact UTC
Contact Angle (°) P1 2:36:14 20.28 U1 3:33:39 27.80 Riccioli 3:35:41 32.24 Grimaldi 3:36:22 31.34 Billy 3:40:30 28.62 Kepler 3:48:37 37.77 Campanus 3:48:44 24.46 Aristarchus 3:50:44 44.11 Tycho 3:55:39 20.52 Copernicus 3:57:12
39.25 Birt 3:57:24 27.14 Pytheas 4:
0:24 43.85 Timocharis 4: 6:11
46.89 Nicolai 4:
9:07 22.05 Abulfeda 4: 9:29 31.38 Bullialdus 4:12:01 29.14 Manilius 4:13:25 42.84 Dionysius 4:14:42 38.29 Pico 4:15:29 54.99 Menelaus 4:17:20 43.99 Plato 4:17:37 57.15 Stevinus 4:20:21 26.03 Plinius 4:20:50 44.02 Censorinus 4:21:14 37.71 Goclenius 4:23:52 34.26 Eudoxus 4:24:46 55.63 Aristoteles 4:26:31 57.85 Posidonius 4:27:20 51.31 Taruntius 4:28:12 40.87 Langrenus 4:29:04 35.23 Proclus 4:30:36 45.41 Mare Crisium 4:34:33 46.26 U2 4:41:09 57.55 U3 5:43:31 43.73 Aristarchus 5:54:21 30.40 Riccioli 5:55:51 18.56 Plato 5:56:45 43.38 Grimaldi 5:57:39 17.66 Pico 5:59:06 41.23 Kepler 6:02:04 24.06 Aristoteles 6:04:09 44.08 Pytheas 6:04:37 30.13 Billy 6:04:55 14.93 Timocharis 6:05:14 33.16 Eudoxus 6:07:03 41.86 Copernicus 6:08:37 25.53 Campanus 6:17:09 10.75 Posidonius 6:18:10 37.55 Manilius 6:19:19 29.11 Menelaus 6:21:21 30.26 Birt 6:23:31 13.44 Plinius 6:24:46 30.28 Tycho 6:26:56 6.80 Dionysius 6:27:31 24.57 Abulfeda 6:31:12 17.66 Proclus 6:32:02 31.67 Mare Crisium 6:34:25 32.51 Censorinus 6:34:48 23.98 Bullialdus 6:36:07 15.43 Taruntius 6:37:00 27.13 Nicolai 6:39:21 8.33 Goclenius 6:41:55 20.53 Langrenus 6:45:42 21.51 Stevinus 6:47:11 12.31 U4 6:50:59 14.03 P4 7:48:23 6.51 |
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