LUNAR
ECLIPSE
The next lunar eclipse occurs June 26th 2010. It will be a partial eclipse and not visible from the Isle of Man. Click here for details.
The next lunar eclipse visible from the Isle of Man occurs on June 15th 2011. This is a total eclipse. The Moon goes into eclipse at 19.22h. when the Moon is still below the horizon. It will rise at 20.42h with the moon still in total eclipse. The umbral eclipse phase end at 21.03h. Click here for details.
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On the
last day of 2009, the moon went into a small partial eclipse. At
maximum, it was covered by only 8%
of the Earth's shadow.
December had two Full Moons, so this eclipse also occurred upon the
face of a
Blue Moon!
Image by
Malcolm Lambert. Port Erin. Isle of Man. 18.57h UT
The first and only
lunar eclipse visible from the Island in 2007 occurred on 3rd
March.
Below, imaged by Dave Storey, is a montage of the event.
The last lunar eclipse of 2006 visible from the Isle of Man took place on the evening of Thursday, 7th September, (as seen in this animation of the event, 600KB). No one really expected much from this event, as the eclipse was only a small % partial eclipse; occurring at moonrise from the IoM. As chance would have it, this date coincided with our "first Thursday in the month" meeting, the first time since the observatory was constructed that an eclipse has occurred on a club night. A glance outside when this event was mentioned by our Chairman during his address, resulted in a complete stoppage of the meeting, for the view was truly spectacular for a partial eclipse.
The Microsoft Spreadsheet links below detail all lunar eclipses for the past 50 and future 50 or so years. They require Office 97 or later, but if you do not have that software, you can download a free Excel Viewer (for Windows PCs) from Microsoft. The four files have been modified to default to the latitude and longitude of the Isle of Man Observatory. All eclipse calculations are by Fred Espenak, and he assumes full responsibility for their accuracy. Credit is detailed accordingly within the spreadsheets, Some of the information presented in these tables is based on data originally published in Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986 - 2035.
