| Total Lunar Eclipse 8–9 November 2003 | |
|---|---|
 Totality from Minneapolis, 1:16 UTC | |
 The moon's path through the Earth's shadow | |
| Series (and member) | 126 (45 of 72) |
| Gamma | -0.4319 |
| Magnitude | 1.0178 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | 21:58 |
| Partial | 3:31:25 |
| Penumbral | 6:03:09 |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | 22:16:59 (Nov 8) |
| U1 | 23:32:50 (Nov 8) |
| U2 | 1:07:34 |
| Greatest | 1:18:34 |
| U3 | 1:29:32 |
| U4 | 3:04:15 |
| P4 | 4:20:08 |
 The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Aries. | |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 9 November 2003, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2003, the first being on 16 May 2003. It is the first total lunar eclipse of 21st century which happened on a micromoon day. The Moon barely edged into total eclipse for 21 minutes and 58 seconds. With the Moon just 1.78% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, the Moon may have been quite bright, but even so, this should have been worth seeing. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 31 minutes and 25 seconds. Occurring only 1.4 days before apogee (Apogee on Monday 10 November 2003), the Moon's apparent diameter was 6.4% smaller than average.
This was the last of 14 total lunar eclipses of Lunar Saros 126, which started on 19 June 1769 and ended on 9 November 2003.