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A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.9116. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's ...
A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Thursday, December 31, 2009, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.0779. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other ...
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Monday, February 9, 2009, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.0863. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's ...
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Thursday, August 6, 2009, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.6642. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's ...
The Moon then wanes as it passes through the gibbous moon, third-quarter moon, and crescent moon phases, before returning back to new moon. The terms old moon and new moon are not interchangeable. The "old moon" is a waning sliver (which eventually becomes undetectable to the naked eye) until the moment it aligns with the Sun and begins to wax ...
next full moon February 9, 2009: lunar (full) end: Lunar saros 143 (17 of 72) next eclipse season ... no eclipses for about 5 months... July 7, 2009: lunar (full) beginning: Lunar saros 110 (71 of 72) next new moon July 22, 2009: solar (new) middle: Solar saros 136 (37 of 71) next full moon August 6, 2009: lunar (full) end: Lunar saros 148 (3 ...
01:21, 3 November 2009: 2,000 × 2,000 (262 KB) Splette {{Information |Description={{en|1=Diagram of lunar phases. The lunar phase depends on the Moon's position in orbit around the Earth and the Earth's position in orbit around the sun. Graphics of the Earth and Moon were obtained from the NASA public domain
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year. The most widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar .