December 2028 lunar eclipse

Total lunar eclipse December 31, 2028
Ecliptic north up The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Saros (and member)	125 (49 of 72)
Gamma	0.3258
Magnitude	1.2463
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:11:20
Partial	3:28:49
Penumbral	5:36:13
Contacts (UTC)
P1	14:03:49
U1	15:07:35
U2	16:16:19
Greatest	16:51:58
U3	17:27:40
U4	18:36:24
P4	19:40:02

A total lunar eclipse will take place on Sunday, December 31, 2028 (January 1, 2029 for Eastern Asian and Australian timezones). It will occur during a blue moon and is the first such eclipse to happen on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day since December 2009, and the first total lunar eclipse on New Year's Day in history. The next such eclipse will be in December 2047 (though January 2048 for most timezones).

Visibility

It will be completely visible over Asia and western Australia, will be seen rising over other areas of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Australia and New Zealand.

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses in 2028

A partial lunar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 January 2028.
An annular solar eclipse on Wednesday, 26 January 2028.
A partial lunar eclipse on Thursday, 6 July 2028.
A total solar eclipse on Saturday, 22 July 2028.
A total lunar eclipse on Sunday, 31 December 2028.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2027–2031
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	2027 Jul 18	Penumbral	-1.57589	115	2028 Jan 12	Partial	0.98177
120	2028 Jul 06	Partial	-0.79040	125	2028 Dec 31	Total	0.32583
130	2029 Jun 26	Total	0.01240	135	2029 Dec 20	Total	-0.38110
140	2030 Jun 15	Partial	0.75346	145	2030 Dec 09	Penumbral	-1.07315
150	2031 Jun 05	Penumbral	1.47322

Last set	2027 Aug 17			Last set	2027 Feb 20

Next set	2031 May 07			Next set	2031 Oct 30

Saros series

Lunar saros series 125, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 26 total lunar eclipses. The first was on June 17, 1704 and the last will be on March 19, 2155. The longest totality occurrence of this series (7th) was on August 22, 1812 when totality lasted one hour and 42 minutes.^[1]

This is the 19th of 26 total lunar eclipses in series 125. The previous occurrence was on December 21, 2010 and the next will occur on January 12, 2047.

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 132.