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December 10, 2011 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (Bombay)

Dec 10, 2011 at 8:01 pm
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Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in Mumbai, Maharashtra
Began: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Maximum: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:01 pm 1.106 Magnitude
Ended: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Duration: 5 hours, 5 minutes

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December 10, 2011 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Mumbai

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
5:03 pm Sat, Dec 10Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse begins Below horizonMap direction East-northeast 61°
-11.3°
5:54 pm Sat, Dec 10RisingMoonrise RisingMap direction East-northeast 66°
-0.2°
6:15 pm Sat, Dec 10
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-northeast.		Map direction East-northeast 67°
3.8°
7:36 pm Sat, Dec 10
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.Map direction East-northeast 72°
21.0°
8:01 pm Sat, Dec 10
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction East-northeast 73°
26.6°
8:27 pm Sat, Dec 10
Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.Map direction East-northeast 74°
32.3°
9:47 pm Sat, Dec 10
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.Map direction East-northeast 77°
50.3°
11:00 pm Sat, Dec 10
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.Map direction East-northeast 76°
66.6°

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.

This total lunar eclipse was fully visible in Mumbai. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the Moon turns red.

Cloud Coverage (Dec 10)

In the past, this day was cloudy 13% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipse Visibility From MumbaiVisibility Worldwide
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Jun 26, 2010 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jun 15–16, 2011 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 10, 2011 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 6, 2012 Venus TransitVenus Transit
Nov 28, 2012 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 25–26, 2013 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Oct 19, 2013 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 8, 2014 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Apr 4, 2015 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Sep 28, 2015 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 23, 2016 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 9, 2016 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Sep 16–17, 2016 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Feb 11, 2017 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 7–8, 2017 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 31, 2018 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 27–28, 2018 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 17, 2019 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Dec 26, 2019 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse

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