| Total eclipse | |||||||||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg) Oria, Italy at 5:43 UTC, end of totality | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | 20 January 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.3684 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.1953 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 134 (27 of 73) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 61 minutes, 59 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 196 minutes, 45 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 311 minutes, 30 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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A total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 January 2019 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). For observers in the Americas, the eclipse took place between the evening of Sunday, 20 January and the early morning hours of Monday, 21 January. For observers in Europe and Africa, the eclipse occurred during the morning of 21 January. The Moon was near its perigee on 21 January and as such can be described as a "supermoon".[1]
As this supermoon was also a wolf moon (the first full moon in a calendar year), it was referred to as a "super blood wolf moon"; blood refers to the typical red color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse.[2] This was the last total lunar eclipse until May 2021. This was a Super Full Moon because occurred less than a day before perigee and the Moon was less than exactly 360,000 km (223,694 mi).
The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California captured video showing a meteor between the size of an acorn and tennis ball impacting the Moon during the eclipse.[3] The impact was observed during totality, at 4:41 UTC, on the left side of the Moon.[4] It is the only documented case of a lunar impact during a total lunar eclipse.[5][6]
- ^ Rogers, James (20 January 2019). "'Super blood Moon' eclipse stuns in remarkable pictures". Fox News.
- ^ "Super blood wolf moon: stargazers battle cold and clouds to view lunar eclipse". The Guardian. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Meghan Bartels (22 January 2019). "Watch a Meteor Smack the Blood Moon in This Lunar Eclipse Video". Space.com. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ "A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here's what we know". Science & Innovation. 22 January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019.
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