| Total eclipse | |||||||||||||||||
 Totality from Aichi Prefecture, Japan at 11:04 UTC, with Uranus at the bottom left | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | 8 November 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.2570 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.3589 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 136 (20 of 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 84 minutes, 58 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 180 minutes, 50 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 353 minutes, 51 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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A total lunar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. The southern limb of the Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. It surpassed the previous eclipse as the longest total lunar eclipse visible from nearly all of North America since 17 August 1989, and until 26 June 2029.[1][2][3] Occurring only 5.8 days before apogee (on 14 November 2022), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. The next total lunar eclipse will take place on 14 March 2025.[4] A lunar occultation of Uranus happened during the eclipse.[5] It was the first total lunar eclipse on Election Day in US history.[6][7] This event was referred in media coverage as a "beaver blood moon".[8][9]
This lunar eclipse was the fourth and last of an almost tetrad, the others being 26 May 2021 (T), 19 November 2021 (P) and 16 May 2022 (T).
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- ^ Rice, Doyle. "A total lunar eclipse is coming Nov. 8 – a rare Election Day eclipse". USA Today. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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- ^ Gorman, Steve (8 November 2022). "Factbox: 'Beaver blood moon' offers world's last total lunar eclipse until 2025". Reuters. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "What to know about the 'Beaver blood moon' on Nov. 8, the world's last lunar eclipse until 2025". l!fe • The Philippine Star. Retrieved 8 November 2022.