View full map. | Some areas of visibility for the May 15-16, 2022, total lunar eclipse. Image via Dominic Ford from In-the-sky.org.Total lunar eclipsePeople in the Americas, Europe and Africa will see the total lunar eclipse during the night of May 15-16, 2022. Plus, on this night, the moon is close: a supermoon. Show
Penumbral eclipse begins at 1:32 UTC on May 16 (9:32
p.m. EDT on May 15). See photos of the lunar eclipse from EarthSky’s community! Visit Timeanddate.com to get an exact timing of the eclipse from your location. Because they are so deep, central eclipses typically have the longest total phases. In this case, the duration of totality lasts nearly 90 minutes! A full moon is up only at night. And a total lunar eclipse can be seen from all of Earth that is experiencing night while the eclipse is taking place. But some will see the eclipse better than others, depending on location. Some will see it at moonrise or moonset, when the moon is low in the sky. Lunar eclipses are safe to view with the unaided eye. Binoculars and telescopes enhance the view, but aren’t required. Read: May’s full moon is the Flower Moon Moon, constellation, SarosThis lunar eclipse takes place 1.5 days before the moon reaches perigee, its closest point to Earth for the month. So this full moon is a supermoon. That means, during this eclipse, the moon appears relatively large in our sky. During the May 15-16 eclipse, the moon is located in the direction of the constellation Libra. The eclipse belongs to Saros 131 in the catalog of lunar eclipses. It is number 34 of 72 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the moon’s descending node. The moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series. Expect higher-than-usual tides, following this eclipseThe May full moon is a supermoon, closest to the Earth for May just 1.5 days before the eclipse takes place. Thus, in the day or two after the eclipse, people who live along a coastline can expect higher-than-usual tides. Some call this sort of tide perigean spring tides. But in recent years, since close new or full moons have come to be called supermoons, the extra high tides they bring are sometimes called supermoon tides. Some also favor the term king tides. The path of the moon during the eclipseFind the moon’s path with respect to Earth’s umbral and penumbral shadows below. Visit Timeanddate.com to get an exact timing of the eclipse from your location. Last and next eclipses, and eclipse seasonsThe total lunar eclipse of May 16, 2022, is preceded two weeks earlier by a partial solar eclipse on April 30, 2022. These two eclipses take place within a single eclipse season. An eclipse season is an approximate 35-day period during which it’s inevitable for at least two (and possibly three) eclipses to take place. The October-November 2022 eclipse season will feature a partial solar eclipse on October 25 and a total lunar eclipse on November 7-8. Maps and data for the total lunar eclipse
Visit Timeanddate.com to get an exact timing of the eclipse from your location. Lunar eclipse photos from our EarthSky communitySubmit your photo to EarthSky here. View at EarthSky Community Photos. | EarthSky friend Tom Wildoner – of the website LeisurelyScientist – captured this image of a total lunar eclipse in 2019 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Thank you, Tom!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Timothy E. O’Sullivan took this shot on May 26, 2021, in Sacramento, California. He wrote: “The lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021, reached near totality in my location. I like the red moon, and I also like seeing stars right by the full moon.”More resourcesThank you, Fred Espenak, for granting permission to reprint this article. For the best in eclipse info – from a world’s expert – visit Fred’s publications page.Bottom line: A 90-minute total lunar eclipse happens on Sunday, May 15-16, 2022. It’s seen across much of Earth, best from the Americas and western Africa. Visit Timeanddate.com to get an exact timing of the eclipse from your location. Read more from EarthSky: Tides, and the pull of the moon and sun See photos of the November 2021 lunar eclipse EarthSky’s monthly night sky guide: Visible planets and more Fred EspenakView Articles About the Author: Fred Espenak is a scientist emeritus at Goddard Space Flight Center. For decades, he has been NASA's expert on eclipses, and some of you may know him as Mr. Eclipse. Fred maintains NASA's official eclipse web site (eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov) as well as his personal web site on eclipse photography (mreclipse.com). Now retired and living in rural Arizona, Fred spends most clear nights losing sleep and photographing the stars (astropixels.com). His latest website is devoted to helping you enjoy eclipses (www.eclipsewise.com). He is an EarthSky content partner. Editors of EarthSkyView Articles About the Author: The EarthSky team has a blast bringing you daily updates on your cosmos and world. We love your photos and welcome your news tips. Earth, Space, Human World, Tonight. When can I see a lunar eclipse?May 15–16, 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse (blood moon). Time and Date (opens in new tab). Retrieved May 9, 2022. November 7–8, 2022 total Lunar Eclipse (blood moon).
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