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| Total lunar eclipse 15 June 2011 | |
|---|---|
 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 19:28 UTC | |
 The Moon passes right to left through the Earth's shadow | |
| Series (and member) | 130 (34 of 72) |
| Gamma | 0.0897 |
| Magnitude | 1.6999 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | 1:40:13 |
| Partial | 3:39:17 |
| Penumbral | 5:36:04 |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | 17:24:37 |
| U1 | 18:22:57 |
| U2 | 19:22:29 |
| Greatest | 20:12:36 |
| U3 | 21:02:42 |
| U4 | 22:02:14 |
| P4 | 23:00:41 |
 The Moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Ophiuchus (north of Scorpius) | |
A total lunar eclipse took place on 15 June 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second occurred on 10 December 2011. While the visual effect of a total eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse.[citation needed]
This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth's shadow passes across the Moon. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the Earth's shadow was on 16 July 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse was on 27 July 2018 over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia.[citation needed]