August 1990 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse August 6, 1990
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	138 (28 of 83)
Gamma	0.6374
Magnitude	0.6766
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:55:30
Penumbral	5:22:00
Contacts ((UTC))
P1	11:32:16
U1	12:45:31
Greatest	14:13:16
U4	15:41:01
P4	16:54:16

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, August 6, 1990, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1990.

Visibility

Relations to other lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 1990

• An annular solar eclipse on January 26.
• A total lunar eclipse on February 9.
• A total solar eclipse on July 22.
• A partial lunar eclipse on August 6.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1988–1991
Descending node					Ascending node
Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Gamma		Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Gamma
113	1988 Mar 03	Penumbral	0.98855		118	1988 Aug 27	Partial	−0.86816
123	1989 Feb 20	Total	0.29347		128	1989 Aug 17	Total	−0.14905
133	1990 Feb 09	Total	−0.41481		138	1990 Aug 06	Partial	0.63741
143	1991 Jan 30	Penumbral	−1.07522		148	1991 Jul 26	Penumbral	1.43698
Last set	1987 Apr 14				Last set	1987 Oct 07
Next set	1991 Dec 21				Next set	1991 Jun 27

Saros series

Lunar saros series 138 has 26 total eclipses between September 7, 2044 and March 24, 2369. The longest eclipse will be on January 7, 2243, and last for 102 minutes.

Partial eclipses will occur between June 24, 1918 and August 13, 2603. Penumbral eclipses will occur between October 15, 1521 and March 30, 2982.

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 145.

July 31, 1981	August 11, 1999

See also

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

External links

• 1990 Aug 06 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC