August 2016 lunar eclipse
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Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes behind the Earth so that the Earth blocks the Sun's rays from striking the Moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a...
will take place on August 18, 2016, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2016.
This eclipse grazes the northern boundary of the Earth's penumbral shadow, will be visually inperceptible, and marks the end of the Saros series 109.
Visibility
It will be visible from Australia and the Americas.
Saros series
It is the last lunar eclipse of Saros cycleSaros cycle
The saros is a period of 223 synodic months , that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative geometry, and a nearly identical eclipse will occur, in what is referred to as an eclipse cycle...
109. The previous one was on August 8, 1998
August 1998 lunar eclipse
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on August 8, 1998, the second of three lunar eclipses that year.- Saros series :This lunar eclipse is the second to last member of Saros series 109. The next event is on August 18, 2016. The previous occurrence was on July 27, 1980.- External links :*...
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