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July 6, 1982 — Total Lunar Eclipse — St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Jul 6, 1982 at 5:00 am
Max View in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Began: Tue, Jul 6, 1982 at 1:53 am
Maximum: Tue, Jul 6, 1982 at 5:00 am 1.718 Magnitude
Ended: Tue, Jul 6, 1982 at 5:16 am
Duration: 3 hours, 22 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

Location

July 6, 1982 — Total Lunar Eclipse — St. John's

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looked like in St. John's. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times were local time (NDT) for St. John's.

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
1:53 am Tue, Jul 6
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction South-southwest 193°
17.8°
3:03 am Tue, Jul 6
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction South-southwest 208°
13.7°
4:08 am Tue, Jul 6
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to Southwest.
Map direction Southwest 222°
7.6°
5:00 am Tue, Jul 6
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, recommend going to a high point.
Additionally, the eclipsed moon combined with dimming near horizon might make the Moon very hard or impossible to see.
Map direction Southwest 232°
1.5°
5:16 am Tue, Jul 6SettingMoonset Setting, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase makes the Moon so dim before it sets, that it might disappear from view some time before it sets.Map direction Southwest 234°
-0.2°
5:53 am Tue, Jul 6Not directly visibleTotal Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West-southwest 241°
-6.0°
6:58 am Tue, Jul 6Not directly visiblePartial Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West-southwest 252°
-15.7°
8:07 am Tue, Jul 6Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West 263°
-26.7°

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

This total lunar eclipse was fully visible in St. John's. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the Moon turns red.


Eclipses and Transits Visible in St. John's

Eclipse Visibility From St. John'sVisibility Worldwide
Mar 1, 1980 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 25–26, 1980 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jan 20, 1981 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 16–17, 1981 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 9, 1982 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 6, 1982 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 30, 1982 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 25, 1983 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Dec 4, 1983 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Dec 19–20, 1983 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 15, 1984 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 30, 1984 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Nov 8, 1984 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 19, 1985 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Oct 28, 1985 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Oct 3, 1986 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Oct 17, 1986 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Apr 13–14, 1987 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 6–7, 1987 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 16–17, 1989 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse

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

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