September 2042 lunar eclipse

September 2042 lunar eclipse
Penumbral eclipse
Date29 September 2042
Gamma−1.0261
Magnitude0.9528[1]
Saros cycle118 (53 of 73[2])
Penumbral238 minutes 32 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P108:45:03
Greatest10:44:20
P412:43:35

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on September 29, 2042. Earlier sources compute this as a 0.3% partial eclipse lasting under 12 minutes,[3] but newer calculations list it as a penumbral eclipse that never enters the umbral shadow.

  1. ^ For a partial or total lunar eclipse, this value denotes the umbral magnitude. For a penumbral lunar eclipse, this denotes the penumbral magnitude.
  2. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses in Saros 118". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  3. ^ "Extremes of Lunar Eclipse from 1900 to 2100". www.hko.gov.hk.