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December 30, 2001 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Dec 30, 2001 at 9:29 pm
Max View in Melbourne, Victoria
Global Event: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Melbourne, Victoria
Began: Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 8:43 pm
Maximum: Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 9:29 pm -0.116 Magnitude
Ended: Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:31 pm
Duration: 2 hours, 48 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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December 30, 2001 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Melbourne

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looked like in Melbourne. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times were local time (AEDT) for Melbourne.

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
7:27 pm Sun, Dec 30Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse begins Below horizonMap direction East-northeast 69°
-13.6°
8:43 pm Sun, Dec 30RisingMoonrise Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends.Map direction East-northeast 58°
-0.2°
9:29 pm Sun, Dec 30
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to Northeast.		Map direction Northeast 51°
6.5°
11:31 pm Sun, Dec 30
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.Map direction North-northeast 28°
21.3°

How to use altitude & direction to find in the sky

The curvature of the shadow's path and the apparent rotation of the Moon's disk is due to the Earth's rotation.

During this penumbral lunar eclipse, the Earth's main shadow did not cover the Moon. As the Earth's shadow (umbra) misses the Moon during a penumbral lunar eclipse, there were no other locations on Earth where the Moon appeared partially or totally eclipsed during this event. A penumbral lunar eclipse can be a bit hard to see as the shadowed part is only a little bit fainter than the rest of the Moon.

Cloud Coverage (Dec 30)

In the past, this day was cloudy 49% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Melbourne

Eclipse Visibility From MelbourneVisibility Worldwide
Jul 16–17, 2000 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 10, 2001 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 5–6, 2001 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Dec 30, 2001 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 26, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jun 25, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Dec 4, 2002 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
May 7, 2003 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Nov 24, 2003 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
May 5, 2004 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 8, 2004 Venus TransitVenus Transit
Apr 24, 2005 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 17–18, 2005 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Sep 8, 2006 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 9, 2006 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Aug 28, 2007 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Feb 7, 2008 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Aug 17, 2008 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 26, 2009 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Feb 9–10, 2009 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 7, 2009 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jan 1, 2010 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse

Note: Click on the date link for details in Melbourne, or the path map image for global details. Currently shown eclipse is highlighted.

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