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May 15, 1919 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Cairo, Egypt (Al Qâhirah)

May 15, 1919 at 3:13 am
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Global Event: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, in Cairo
Began: Thu, May 15, 1919 at 12:57 am
Maximum: Thu, May 15, 1919 at 3:13 am -0.165 Magnitude
Ended: Thu, May 15, 1919 at 5:05 am
Duration: 4 hours, 9 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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May 15, 1919 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Cairo

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
12:57 am Thu, May 15
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction South-southwest 201°
37.1°
3:13 am Thu, May 15
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction Southwest 231°
19.6°
5:06 am Thu, May 15SettingMoonset SettingMap direction West-southwest 247°
-0.2°
5:30 am Thu, May 15Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West-southwest 249°
-5.5°

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 (May 15)

In the past, this day was cloudy 23% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Cairo

Eclipse Visibility From CairoVisibility Worldwide
May 24, 1910 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Nov 16–17, 1910 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Nov 6, 1911 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 1–2, 1912 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Apr 17, 1912 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Mar 12, 1914 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Aug 21, 1914 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Sep 4, 1914 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 7, 1914 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Jan 31, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 1, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 24–25, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 15, 1916 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 8, 1917 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 23, 1917 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Jul 4–5, 1917 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 17, 1918 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 15, 1919 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Nov 7–8, 1919 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse

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