October 2004 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse 27–28 October 2004
Taken by Fred Espenak at 3:03 UT, from Dunkirk, Maryland
The Moon's path through the Earth's shadow.
Series (and member)	136 (19 of 72)
Gamma	0.2846
Magnitude	+1.3132
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:20:29
Partial	3:38:41
Penumbral	5:53:46
Contacts (UTC)
P1	0:07:17
U1	1:14:45
U2	2:23:51
Greatest	3:04:07
U3	3:44:20
U4	4:53:26
P4	6:01:03
The Moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Aries.

A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday 28 October 2004, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2004, the first being on 4 May 2004.^[1] It was the first lunar eclipse to take place during a World Series game,^[2]^[3] which when seen from Busch Memorial Stadium in St, Louis, Missouri, provided a surreal sight on the night the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years to end the Curse of the Bambino. Occurring 5.6 days before apogee (Apogee on 2 November 2004), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. The Moon was 10.1 days after perigee and 5.6 days before apogee.

Visibility

This eclipse was completely visible from all of North and South America, and visible from most of Europe and Africa.

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Eclipse season

This is the second eclipse this season.

First eclipse this season: 14 October 2004 Partial Solar Eclipse

Eclipses of 2004

Lunar year series

It is the third of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2002–2005
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma
111	2002 May 26	penumbral	1.1759	116	2002 Nov 20	penumbral	−1.1127
121	2003 May 16	total	0.4123	126	2003 Nov 09	total	−0.4319
131	2004 May 04	total	−0.3132	136	2004 Oct 28	total	0.2846
141	2005 Apr 24	penumbral	−1.0885	146	2005 Oct 17	partial	0.9796

Last set	2002 Jun 24			Last set	2001 Dec 30

Next set	2006 Mar 14			Next set	2006 Sep 07

Saros series

This eclipse was a part of Saros cycle 136. The next occurrence will be on 8 November 2022. Solar Saros 143 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. The greatest eclipse will occur on 21 April 2293, lasting 101 minutes and 23.5 seconds. The last total lunar eclipse will be on 7 July 2419 and the last partial lunar eclipse on 3 October 2563. The final lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 136 will be on 1 June 2960.

Metonic series

This eclipse is the third of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, 28–29 October, each separated by 19 years:

The metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

Metonic events: May 4 and October 28
Descending node	Ascending node
1966 May 4 - Penumbral (111) 1985 May 4 - Total (121) 2004 May 4 - Total (131) 2023 May 5 - Penumbral (141)	1966 Oct 29 - Penumbral (116) 1985 Oct 28 - Total (126) 2004 Oct 28 - Total (136) 2023 Oct 28 - Partial (146) 2042 Oct 28 - Penumbral (156)

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[4] This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 143.

24 October 1995	3 November 2013

Photo gallery

Timelapse photo from Hayward, California
Ault Field, Washington, 2:29 UT
Dunkirk, Maryland, 3:03 UT
From Kiuruvesi, Finland, 3:21 UT
Seattle, Washington
End of totality, 3:43 UT
Bellevue, Washington, 3:51 UT
Timelapse photo from A Coruña, Spain

Notes

^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 136
^ Shaughnessy, Dan (2005). Reversing the Curse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 225–226. ISBN 0-618-51748-0.
^ Shaughnessy, Dan (October 28, 2004). "YES!!!: Red Sox complete sweep, win first Series since 1918". The Boston Globe. p. A1. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

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[1] Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 136

[Game4-Shaughnessy-2] Shaughnessy, Dan (2005). Reversing the Curse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 225–226. ISBN 0-618-51748-0.

[LunarEclipse-3] Shaughnessy, Dan (October 28, 2004). "YES!!!: Red Sox complete sweep, win first Series since 1918". The Boston Globe. p. A1. Retrieved June 20, 2011.

[4] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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