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December 31, 2009 — Partial Lunar Eclipse — Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Calcutta)

Jan 1, 2010 at 12:52 am
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Global Event: Partial Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Lunar Eclipse in Kolkata, West Bengal
Began: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Maximum: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:52 am 0.076 Magnitude
Ended: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:58 am
Duration: 4 hours, 11 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

Location

December 31, 2009–January 1, 2010 — Partial Lunar Eclipse — Kolkata

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
10:47 pm Thu, Dec 31
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction East 79°
78.6°
12:22 am Fri, Jan 1
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction West 280°
79.7°
12:52 am Fri, Jan 1
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction West 278°
73.1°
1:22 am Fri, Jan 1
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.Map direction West 278°
66.4°
2:58 am Fri, Jan 1
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.Map direction West-northwest 281°
45.3°

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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 partial lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow covered only parts of the Moon, as seen from Kolkata. There were no other locations on Earth where the Moon appeared completely covered during this event. The Earth's shadow covered only a small portion of the Moon.

Cloud Coverage (Dec 31–Jan 1)

In the past, this day was cloudy 56% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses and Transits Visible in Kolkata

Eclipse Visibility From KolkataVisibility Worldwide
Jul 16, 2000 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 9–10, 2001 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 5, 2001 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Dec 30, 2001 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 26, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jun 25, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Nov 20, 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 7, 2003 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Nov 9, 2003 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 4–5, 2004 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 8, 2004 Venus TransitVenus Transit
Oct 3, 2005 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Oct 17, 2005 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Mar 15, 2006 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 29, 2006 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Sep 7–8, 2006 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Mar 4, 2007 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 19, 2007 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Aug 28, 2007 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 1, 2008 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Aug 16–17, 2008 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 26, 2009 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Feb 9, 2009 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 22, 2009 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Aug 6, 2009 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Dec 31, 2009–Jan 1, 2010 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse

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