October 2004 lunar eclipse

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Total Lunar Eclipse
October 27-28, 2004 [1]

Seattle, WA, USA
Moon leaving totality

The moon's path through the earth's shadow.
Series (and member) 136 (19)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality 01:21:14
Partial 03:39:20
Penumbral 05:57:08
Contacts
P1 00:05:35 UTC
U1 01:14:26 UTC
U2 02:23:28 UTC
Greatest 03:04:07 UTC
U3 03:44:43 UTC
U4 04:53:45 UTC
P4 06:02:44 UTC

The moon's path across shadow in Aries.

A total lunar eclipse took place on October 28, 2004, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2004. The first total lunar eclipse occurred on May 4, 2004.

The next penumbral eclipse was on April 14, 2005. The next partial lunar eclipse was on October 17, 2005. The next total lunar eclipse was on March 3, 2007.

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[edit] Relation to other lunar eclipses

This eclipse is the third of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, October 28-29, each separated by 19 years:

  1. October 29, 1966 [2] - penumbral (Saros series 116)
  2. October 28, 1985 [3] - total (Saros series 126)
  3. October 28, 2004 - total (Saros series 136)
  4. October 28, 2023 [4] - partial (Saros series 146)



The moon's path through the earth's shadow near its ascending node progresses northward through each sequential eclipse. The second and third are total eclipses.

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Timelapse photo from Hayward, California

From Finland

Bellevue, USA

A Coruña, Spain

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