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dhani — August 11, 2008 / 7:29 pm
A partial lunar eclipse will took place on August 16, 2008. It is visibile primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere as well as eastern South America. Greatest eclipse takes place at 21:10:06 UT when the eclipse magnitude will reach 0.8076. The timings of the major phases of the eclipse are listed below.
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 18:24:49 UT Partial Eclipse Begins: 19:36:07 UT Greatest Eclipse: 21:10:09 UT Partial Eclipse Ends: 22:44:16 UT Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 23:55:25 UT
The Moon’s trajectory takes it through the northern umbral shadow, resulting in a partial eclipse that lasts 3 hours 8 minutes. At mid-eclipse the Moon’s northern limb passes 5.9 arc-minutes outside the umbra’s northern edge. The Moon’s southern edge is then 16.5 arc-minutes from the shadow’s centre.
This eclipse is also the last eclipse on 2008. (Source: NASA)
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