A total eclipse of the Moon occurred on 28 June, 1908 BC UT Old Style, with maximum eclipse at 19:29 UT. The Moon barely edged into total eclipse for 26 minutes and 30 seconds. With the Moon just 3% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, the Moon may have been quite bright, but even so, this should have been worth seeing. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 10 minutes in total.
The penumbral eclipse lasted for 5 hours and 5 minutes.
The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 10 minutes.
The total eclipse lasted for 26 minutes and 30 seconds.
Maximum eclipse was at 19:29:04 UT.
Eclipse Season and Saros Series
This eclipse season contains 2 eclipses:
This eclipse belongs to lunar Saros series -1.The surrounding eclipses in this Saros series are:
This Saros series, lunar Saros series -1,
is linked to solar Saros series 6. The
nearest partner eclipses in that series are:
Eclipse Parameters
| UT Date/time (max) | 19:29:04 on 28 Jun UT |
TDT Date/time (max) | 07:46:09 on 29 Jun TDT |
| Saros Series | -1 |
Number in Series | |
| Penumbral Magnitiude | 1.9814 |
Central Magnitiude | 1.0318 |
| Gamma | 0.4639 |
Path Width (km) | |
| Delta T | 12h17m |
Error | ± 1h49m (95%) |
| Penumbral Duration | 5h05m |
Partial Duration | 3h10m |
| Total Duration | 26m30s |
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| Partial Rating | |
Total Rating | |
Note that while all dates and times on this site (except
where noted) are in UT, which is within a second of civil time,
the dates and times shown in NASA's eclipse listingsGSFC Eclipse Web Site
The primary source of all the information on eclipses presented here at Hermit Eclipse. (NASA Goddard Space flight Center)
are in the TDT timescale.
For this eclipse, this makes the date shown on this site
different to NASA's date.
Data last updated: 2015-06-21 22:11:38 UTC.
