January 2019 lunar eclipse

Total lunar eclipse January 21, 2019
The eclipse seen from Oria, Italy, at 5:43 UTC, January 21, at the end of totality
Ecliptic north up The moon will pass west to east (right to left) through the Earth's shadow.
Saros (and member)	134
Duration ( Visibility The eclipse was visible in its entirety from North and South America, as well as portions of western Europe and northwest Africa. From locations in North America, the eclipse began during the evening hours of January 20. Observers at locations in Europe and much of Africa were able to view part of the eclipse before the Moon set in the early morning (pre-dawn) hours of January 21. Simulated view of Earth from Moon during greatest eclipse, with infrared clouds Visibility map Timing Contact points relative to Earth's umbral and penumbral shadows, here with the Moon near its descending node (left), and the hourly motion for the January 2019 lunar eclipse (right) The timing of total lunar eclipses are determined by its contacts: P1 (First contact): Beginning of the penumbral eclipse. Earth's penumbra touches the Moon's outer limb. U1 (Second contact): Beginning of the partial eclipse. Earth's umbra touches the Moon's outer limb. U2 (Third contact): Beginning of the total eclipse. The Moon's surface is entirely within Earth's umbra. Greatest eclipse: The peak stage of the total eclipse. The Moon is at its closest to the center of Earth's umbra. U3 (Fourth contact): End of the total eclipse. The Moon's outer limb exits Earth's umbra. U4 (Fifth contact): End of the partial eclipse. Earth's umbra leaves the Moon's surface. P4 (Sixth contact): End of the penumbral eclipse. Earth's penumbra no longer makes contact with the Moon. The penumbral phases of the eclipse changes the appearance of the Moon only slightly and is generally not noticeable. Local times of contacts Time zone adjustments from UTC Americas Atlantic European/African -8h -7h -6h -5h -4h -3h -2h -1h 0h +1h +2h +3h PST MST CST EST AST GMT WET WEST CET BST CEST EET MSK−1 FET MSK EAT Event Evening January 20 Morning January 21 P1 Penumbral begins* 6:37 pm 7:37 pm 8:37 pm 9:37 pm 10:37 pm 11:37 pm 12:37 am 1:37 am 2:37 am 3:37 am 4:37 am 5:37 am U1 Partial begins 7:34 pm 8:34 pm 9:34 pm 10:34 pm 11:34 pm 12:34 am 1:34 am 2:34 am 3:34 am 4:34 am 5:34 am 6:34 am U2 Total begins 8:41 pm 9:41 pm 10:41 pm 11:41 pm 12:41 am 1:41 am 2:41 am 3:41 am 4:41 am 5:41 am 6:41 am 7:41 am Mid-eclipse 9:12 pm 10:12 pm 11:12 pm 12:12 am 1:12 am 2:12 am 3:12 am 4:12 am 5:12 am 6:12 am 7:12 am 8:12 am U3 Total ends 9:43 pm 10:43 pm 11:43 pm 12:43 am 1:43 am 2:43 am 3:43 am 4:43 am 5:43 am 6:43 am 7:43 am 8:43 am U4 Partial ends 10:51 pm 11:51 pm 12:51 am 1:51 am 2:51 am 3:51 am 4:51 am 5:51 am 6:51 am 7:51 am 8:51 am 9:51 am P4 Penumbral ends* 11:48 pm 12:48 am 1:48 am 2:48 am 3:48 am 4:48 am 5:48 am 6:48 am 7:48 am 8:48 am 9:48 am 10:48 am Observations America Austin, Texas, 3:57 UTC Seattle, Washington, 4:27 UTC Lindsborg, Kansas, 4:40 UTC Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4:40 UTC San Diego, California, 4:41 UTC Tres Piedras, New Mexico, 4:42 UTC Chihuahua City, Mexico, 4:44 UTC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 5:02 UTC Denver, Colorado, 5:03 UTC Totality in Coralville, Iowa, 5:07 UTC (23:07 Local Time) Macon, Georgia, 5:18 UTC Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania, 5:26 UTC New York City, New York, 5:37 UTC Animation from São Paulo, Brazil Europe Partial from Moscow, Russia, 3:49 UTC Järna, Sweden, 4:48 UTC Oria, Italy, 5:43 UTC Sandl, Austria Appearance It took place in the constellation of Cancer, just west of the Beehive Cluster. Impact sighted Livestreams detected a flash of light while viewing the eclipse. It was "likely caused by the crash of a tiny, fast-moving meteoroid left behind by a comet." Originally thinking it was electronic noise from the camera, astronomers and citizen scientists shared the visual phenomenon with each other to identify it. When totality was just beginning at 4:41 UT, the tiny speck of light blinked south of a nearly 55-mile-wide crater in the western part of the moon. The location of the impact may be somewhere in the lunar highlands, south of Byrgius crater, according to Justin Cowart, a graduate student in geosciences at Stony Brook University in New York who first saw the flash of light. “A [meteoroid] about this size hits the moon about once a week or so,” said Cowart. This may be the first time that a collision, during a total lunar eclipse, was captured on video. “I have not heard of anyone seeing an impact like this during a lunar eclipse before,” said Sara Russell, a professor of planetary sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. People posted their images and video of a flicker of light as news spread quickly on social media. Working overtime, co-director of the Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System, MIDAS, an astrophysicist at the University of Huelva in Spain, Jose Maria Madiedo, set up eight telescopes to watch for any impacts during the eclipse. “Something inside of me told me that this time would be the time,” said Madiedo. A paper estimates a mass between 20 and 100 kilograms and diameter of 30 to 50 cm and could cause a 7–15 meters crater. Other astronomers estimated a 10-15 meter crater from a 45 kg asteroid moving 61,000 km/h. Related eclipses Eclipses of 2019 A partial solar eclipse on January 6. A total lunar eclipse on January 21. A total solar eclipse on July 2. A partial lunar eclipse on July 16. An annular solar eclipse on December 26. Lunar year series This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. The penumbral lunar eclipses on March 23, 2016 and September 16, 2016 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipses on June 5, 2020 and November 30, 2020 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set. Lunar eclipse series sets from 2016 to 2020 Descending node   Ascending node Saros Date Viewing Type Chart Gamma Saros Date Viewing Type Chart Gamma 109 2016 Aug 18 Penumbral 1.5641 114 2017 Feb 11 Penumbral −1.0255 119 2017 Aug 07 Partial 0.8669 124 2018 Jan 31 Total −0.3014 129 2018 Jul 27 Total 0.1168 134 2019 Jan 21 Total 0.3684 139 2019 Jul 16 Partial −0.6430 144 2020 Jan 10 Penumbral 1.0727 149 2020 Jul 05 Penumbral −1.3639 Saros series It is part of Saros cycle 134. Half-Saros cycle A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 141. January 15, 2010 January 26, 2028 See also List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses References External links 2019 Jan 21 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC Hermit eclipse: 2019-01-21 Eclipse information from skyandtelescope.com, including timing in different time zones