| Total Lunar Eclipse September 27, 1996 | |
|---|---|
The mid-infrared image of the Moon was taken during a September 1996 lunar eclipse by the SPIRIT-III instrument aboard the orbiting Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite. | |
 The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 127 (41 of 72) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | 1:09:12 |
| Partial | 3:23:17 |
| Penumbral | 5:20:52 |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | 0:13:59 UTC |
| U1 | 1:12:43 |
| U2 | 2:19:46 |
| Greatest | 2:54:22 |
| U3 | 3:28:57 |
| U4 | 4:35:59 |
| P4 | 5:34:51 |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 27, 1996, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1996, the first being on Thursday, April 4. This is the 41st member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the September 1978 lunar eclipse. The next event is the October 2014 lunar eclipse.
This eclipse was the second of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 04 Apr 1996 (T), 24 Mar 1997 (P) and 16 Sep 1997 (T).