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September 28, 2015 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Sep 28, 2015 at 3:47 am
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Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in Birmingham, England
Began: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:11 am
Maximum: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:47 am 1.276 Magnitude
Ended: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:22 am
Duration: 5 hours, 11 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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September 28, 2015 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Birmingham

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
1:11 am Mon, Sep 28
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction South 185°
37.6°
2:07 am Mon, Sep 28
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction South-southwest 202°
35.8°
3:11 am Mon, Sep 28
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.Map direction Southwest 220°
31.0°
3:47 am Mon, Sep 28
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction Southwest 229°
27.4°
4:23 am Mon, Sep 28
Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.Map direction West-southwest 237°
23.2°
5:27 am Mon, Sep 28
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.Map direction West-southwest 251°
14.9°
6:22 am Mon, Sep 28
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West.		Map direction West 262°
7.1°

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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.

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

Cloud Coverage (Sep 28)

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

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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Birmingham

Eclipse Visibility From BirminghamVisibility Worldwide
Dec 21, 2010 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 4, 2011 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Jun 15–16, 2011 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 10, 2011 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 6, 2012 Venus TransitVenus Transit
Nov 28, 2012 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 25, 2013 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
May 25, 2013 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 18–19, 2013 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 15, 2014 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 20, 2015 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Sep 28, 2015 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 9, 2016 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Sep 16, 2016 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Feb 10–11, 2017 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 7, 2017 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Aug 21, 2017 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Jul 27–28, 2018 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jan 21, 2019 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 16–17, 2019 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 11, 2019 Mercury TransitMercury Transit

Note: Click on the date link for details in Birmingham, or the path map image for global details. Currently shown eclipse is highlighted.

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