| Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 18 August 2016 | |
|---|---|
 The Moon barely clipped the northern penumbral shadow of the Earth. | |
| Series (and member) | 109 (72 of 72) |
| Gamma | 1.559 |
| Magnitude | -0.9925 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Penumbral | 33:36 |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | 9:25:36 UTC |
| Greatest | 9:42:24 |
| P4 | 9:59:12 |
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, 18 August 2016. It was the second of three lunar eclipses in 2016. This was 3.7 days before the Moon reached perigee. There are multiple ways to determine the boundaries of Earth's shadow, so this was a miss according to some sources. The HM National Almanac Office's online canon of eclipses lists this event as the last eclipse on Saros Series 109,[1] while NASA lists August 8, 1998 as the last eclipse of the series, and has this event missing the shadow.[2]