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January 31, 1999 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Vantaa, Finland

Jan 31, 1999 at 6:17 pm
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Global Event: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, in Vantaa
Began: Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 4:23 pm
Maximum: Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 6:17 pm -0.026 Magnitude
Ended: Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 8:28 pm
Duration: 4 hours, 5 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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January 31, 1999 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Vantaa

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
4:06 pm Sun, Jan 31Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse begins Below horizonMap direction Northeast 51°
-1.5°
4:23 pm Sun, Jan 31RisingMoonrise 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 Northeast 55°
-0.2°
6:17 pm Sun, Jan 31
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction East-northeast 78°
11.5°
8:28 pm Sun, Jan 31
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.Map direction East-southeast 106°
26.8°

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 (Jan 31)

In the past, this day was cloudy 80% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Vantaa

Eclipse Visibility From VantaaVisibility Worldwide
Feb 9–10, 1990 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 22, 1990 Total Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Jan 30, 1991 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 26, 1991 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Dec 9–10, 1992 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 21, 1993 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Nov 29, 1993 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 10, 1994 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
May 25, 1994 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 18, 1994 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 8, 1995 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 4, 1996 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Sep 27, 1996 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Oct 12, 1996 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Mar 24, 1997 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Sep 16–17, 1997 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 13, 1998 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 8, 1998 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jan 31, 1999 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 11, 1999 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse

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