June 1993 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse June 4, 1993
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	130 (33 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
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P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, June 4, 1993, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 1993, the second being on Monday, November 29. The Moon was plunged into darkness for 1 hour and 36 minutes, in a deep total eclipse which saw the Moon 56% of its diameter inside the Earth's umbral shadow. The visual effect of this depends on the state of the Earth's atmosphere, but the Moon may have been stained a deep red colour. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 38 minutes in total. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility

It was seen completely over Australia, seen rising over Asia on the evening of Friday 4 June 1993, and setting over Western North and South America on the morning of Friday 4 June 1993.

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1993

• A partial solar eclipse (north) on May 21.
• A total lunar eclipse (central, passing north of the axis) on June 4.
• A partial solar eclipse (south) on November 13.
• A total lunar eclipse (south) on November 29.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1991–1994
Ascending node					Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1991 Jun 27	Penumbral	−1.40641		115	1991 Dec 21	Partial	0.97094
120	1992 Jun 15	Partial	−0.62887		125	1992 Dec 9	Total	0.31438
130	1993 Jun 4	Total	0.16376		135	1993 Nov 29	Total	−0.39941
140	1994 May 25	Partial	0.89334		145	1994 Nov 18	Penumbral	−1.10479
Last set	1991 Jul 26				Last set	1991 Jan 30
Next set	1995 Apr 15				Next set	1995 Oct 08

Saros series

Lunar saros series 130, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 56 umbral lunar eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 14 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 137 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2029 Jun 26, lasting 102 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1416 Jun 10	1560 Sep 4	1921 Apr 22	1957 May 13
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2083 Jul 29	2155 Sep 11	2552 May 10	2678 Jul 26

1901–2200

1903 Apr 12		1921 Apr 22		1939 May 3
1957 May 13		1975 May 25		1993 Jun 4
2011 Jun 15		2029 Jun 26		2047 Jul 7
2065 Jul 17		2083 Jul 29

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 137.

May 30, 1984	June 10, 2002

See also

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

External links

• Saros cycle 130
• 1993 Jun 04 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC