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Penumbral lunar eclipse, Monday 9 December 2030

The Moon passes only through Earth's faint outer shadow, the penumbra. Penumbral eclipses are subtle: a slight shading on one side of the Moon, easy to miss. It is visible from anywhere the Moon is above the horizon: Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia.

Greatest eclipse
Type
Penumbral
Umbral magnitude
-0.165 (NASA -0.163)
Penumbral magnitude
0.941
Saros series
145
Path of the Moon through Earth's shadowP1P4GreatestNorth up, east left. Outer ring: penumbra; inner disc: umbra.
Drawn from our computed positions of the Moon and Earth's shadow.

Timetable (UTC)

Penumbral eclipse begins
Greatest eclipse
Penumbral eclipse ends

Contact times to the nearest minute, using the Danjon enlargement of Earth's shadow that NASA's tables also use. The penumbral stages are hard to see; the show begins with the partial phase.

Cities where the Moon is up

CityMoon altitude at greatest
Luxor Egypt79°
Cairo Egypt78°
Tel Aviv Israel74°
Jerusalem Israel74°
Athens Greece74°
Amman Jordan73°
Jeddah Saudi Arabia73°
Tunis Tunisia72°
Naples Italy70°
Istanbul Turkey69°
Addis Ababa Ethiopia68°
Rome Italy68°
Bucharest Romania67°
Lagos Nigeria67°
Riyadh Saudi Arabia66°
Marseille France65°
Barcelona Spain64°
Milan Italy64°
Budapest Hungary64°
Accra Ghana63°
Vienna Austria63°
Munich Germany62°
Zurich Switzerland62°
Marrakesh Morocco62°
Nairobi Kenya62°
Casablanca Morocco62°
Doha Qatar62°
Madrid Spain62°
Seville Spain61°
Prague Czech Republic61°
Kyiv Ukraine60°
Tehran Iran60°
Warsaw Poland59°
Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates59°
Paris France59°
Lisbon Portugal59°
Berlin Germany58°
Dubai United Arab Emirates58°
Brussels Belgium58°
Hamburg Germany57°
Amsterdam Netherlands57°
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain56°
Dar es Salaam Tanzania56°
London United Kingdom56°
Muscat Oman55°
Copenhagen Denmark55°
Moscow Russia53°
Manchester United Kingdom53°
Dakar Senegal52°
Stockholm Sweden52°
Dublin Ireland52°
Helsinki Finland51°
Edinburgh United Kingdom51°
Oslo Norway51°
Karachi Pakistan47°
Tashkent Uzbekistan45°
Windhoek Namibia45°
Tromsø Norway42°
Antananarivo Madagascar41°
Mumbai India41°

Showing the best-placed 60 of 104 cities.

The Moon during a total lunar eclipse, glowing a deep copper red
The Moon during a total lunar eclipse, glowing a deep copper red. Brucewaters, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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