May 2002 lunar eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 26 May 2002
The moon passed (right to left) through the Earth's northern penumbral shadow.
Series (and member)	111 (66 of 71)
Gamma	1.1758
Magnitude	0.6893
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Penumbral	3:36:34
Contacts (UTC)
P1	10:15:00
Greatest	12:03:22
P4	13:51:34
The moon's hourly motion across the Earth's shadow in the constellation of Scorpius.

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 26 May 2002, the first of three lunar eclipses in 2002.

Visibility

The beginning of the penumbral phase was visible in most of North America except the northeast, Central America, western South America, extreme northeast Russia, eastern Asia, Australia, most of Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, and the southeast Indian Ocean; the end of the eclipse was visible in southwestern Alaska, Asia except the extreme north, Australia, the eastern Indian Ocean, and most of the Pacific Ocean except the extreme eastern part.

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Eclipses of 2002

A penumbral lunar eclipse on 26 May.
An annular solar eclipse on 10 June.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on 24 June.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on 20 November.
A total solar eclipse on 4 December.

It is the first of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2002–2005
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart	Gamma
111	2002 May 26	penumbral	1.1759	116	2002 Nov 20	penumbral	−1.1127
121	2003 May 16	total	0.4123	126	2003 Nov 09	total	−0.4319
131	2004 May 04	total	−0.3132	136	2004 Oct 28	total	0.2846
141	2005 Apr 24	penumbral	−1.0885	146	2005 Oct 17	partial	0.9796

Last set	2002 Jun 24			Last set	2001 Dec 30

Next set	2006 Mar 14			Next set	2006 Sep 07

Eclipse season

This is the first eclipse this season.

Second eclipse this season: 10 June 2002 Annular Solar Eclipse

Third eclipse this season: 24 June 2002 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

Saros series

Lunar Saros 111, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on 19 April 1353, and last was on 4 August 1533. The longest occurrence of this series was on 12 June 1443 when the totality lasted 106 minutes.

Metonic series

First eclipse: May 26, 2002. Second eclipse: 26 May 2021. Third eclipse: 26 May 2040. Fourth eclipse: 27 May 2059.

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118.

21 May 1993	1 June 2011

In popular culture

This eclipse appears in the 2022 film Turning Red, although it differs from actual events. It is depicted as taking place on the evening of 25 May, rather than the early morning hours of 26 May. Additionally, the film takes place in Toronto, where the total eclipse was not visible.

References

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

External links

Saros cycle 111
2002 May 26 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/1132002/^{[permanent dead link]}

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

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