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August 26, 1980 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Athens, Greece

Aug 26, 1980 at 6:30 am
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Global Event: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, in Athens
Began: Tue, Aug 26, 1980 at 4:43 am
Maximum: Tue, Aug 26, 1980 at 6:30 am -0.254 Magnitude
Ended: Tue, Aug 26, 1980 at 6:51 am
Duration: 2 hours, 8 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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August 26, 1980 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Athens

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
4:43 am Tue, Aug 26
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction Southwest 233°
20.9°
6:30 am Tue, Aug 26
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West-southwest.		Map direction West-southwest 252°
3.2°
6:51 am Tue, Aug 26SettingMoonset SettingMap direction West-southwest 255°
-0.2°
8:17 am Tue, Aug 26Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West 267°
-16.8°

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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.

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 (Aug 26)

In the past, this day was cloudy 9% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Athens

Eclipse Visibility From AthensVisibility Worldwide
Mar 1–2, 1980 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 27, 1980 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 26, 1980 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 17, 1981 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 9–10, 1982 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 15, 1982 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Dec 4, 1983 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Dec 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 4–5, 1985 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Oct 28, 1985 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Oct 17–18, 1986 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Nov 13, 1986 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Mar 29, 1987 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Apr 14, 1987 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 7, 1987 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 3, 1988 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Feb 20, 1989 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 17, 1989 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse

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