May 1994 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse May 25, 1994
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	140 (24 of 80)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, May 25, 1994, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1994, the second being with a penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday, November 18.

Visibility

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1994

An annular solar eclipse on May 10.
A partial lunar eclipse on May 25.
A total solar eclipse on November 3.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 18.

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

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 147.

May 19, 1985	May 31, 2003

References

^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

Saros cycle 140
1994 May 25 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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[1] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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