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March 4, 2007 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (Canton)

Mar 4, 2007 at 6:42 am
Max View in Guangzhou, Guangdong
Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Lunar Eclipse in Guangzhou, Guangdong
Began: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 4:18 am
Maximum: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 6:42 am 0.978 Magnitude
Ended: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 6:50 am
Duration: 2 hours, 32 minutes

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March 4, 2007 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Guangzhou

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
4:18 am Sun, Mar 4
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction West 263°
33.5°
5:30 am Sun, Mar 4
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction West 270°
17.2°
6:42 am Sun, Mar 4
Maximum in Guangzhou This is the moment when the eclipse reaches its greatest magnitude while the entire Moon is above the horizon in Guangzhou. The true maximum point of this eclipse cannot be seen in Guangzhou because the Moon is below the horizon at that time.
Moon close to horizon, recommend going to a high point.		Map direction West 276°
1.3°
6:44 am Sun, Mar 4
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.
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 West 277°
0.9°
6:50 am Sun, Mar 4SettingMoonset 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 West 277°
-0.2°
7:20 am Sun, Mar 4Not directly visibleMaximum Eclipse Below horizonMap direction West 280°
-7.6°
7:57 am Sun, Mar 4Not directly visibleTotal Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West-northwest 284°
-15.7°
9:11 am Sun, Mar 4Not directly visiblePartial Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West-northwest 293°
-31.3°
10:23 am Sun, Mar 4Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction Northwest 306°
-45.4°

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

The total phase of this lunar eclipse was not visible in Guangzhou, but it could be observed there as a partial lunar eclipse. The Earth's shadow covered a large portion of the Moon, so this was still a nice sight.

Cloud Coverage (Mar 4)

In the past, this day was cloudy 88% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Guangzhou

Eclipse Visibility From GuangzhouVisibility Worldwide
Jul 16–17, 2000 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 10, 2001 Total 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 11, 2002 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Jun 25, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 7, 2003 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Nov 9, 2003 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar 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, 2005 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Mar 15, 2006 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Sep 8, 2006 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Mar 4, 2007 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 19, 2007 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Aug 28, 2007 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 1, 2008 Partial Solar EclipseTotal 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 22, 2009 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Jan 1, 2010 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse

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