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January 8, 1917 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Jan 8, 1917 at 7:44 am
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Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in Dundee, Scotland
Began: Mon, Jan 8, 1917 at 4:37 am
Maximum: Mon, Jan 8, 1917 at 7:44 am 1.364 Magnitude
Ended: Mon, Jan 8, 1917 at 8:53 am
Duration: 4 hours, 16 minutes

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January 8, 1917 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Dundee

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
4:37 am Mon, Jan 8
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction West 263°
31.1°
5:50 am Mon, Jan 8
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction West 278°
21.3°
7:00 am Mon, Jan 8
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.Map direction West-northwest 291°
12.2°
7:44 am Mon, Jan 8
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West-northwest.		Map direction West-northwest 299°
6.9°
8:28 am Mon, Jan 8
Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to Northwest.
Additionally, the eclipsed moon combined with dimming near horizon might make the Moon very hard or impossible to see.		Map direction Northwest 308°
2.1°
8:53 am Mon, Jan 8SettingMoonset SettingMap direction Northwest 313°
-0.2°
9:38 am Mon, Jan 8Not directly visiblePartial Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction Northwest 322°
-4.8°
10:51 am Mon, Jan 8Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction North-northwest 338°
-9.8°

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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.

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

Cloud Coverage (Jan 8)

In the past, this day was cloudy 76% of the time (since 2000).

Lunar Eclipses
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  11. Accuracy of Our Eclipse Calculations
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Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Dundee

Eclipse Visibility From DundeeVisibility Worldwide
May 24, 1910 Penumbral Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Nov 16–17, 1910 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 13, 1911 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Nov 6, 1911 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Apr 1–2, 1912 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Apr 17, 1912 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Mar 12, 1914 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Aug 21, 1914 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Nov 7, 1914 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Jan 31, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 1, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 24, 1915 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jan 20, 1916 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Feb 3, 1916 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Jul 15, 1916 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 8, 1917 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 4–5, 1917 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 28, 1917 Partial Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Dec 17, 1918 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
May 14–15, 1919 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Nov 7–8, 1919 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 22, 1919 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse

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