Back خسوف القمر أغسطس 2008 Arabic Eclipse lunar de agosto de 2008 Spanish Éclipse lunaire du 16 août 2008 French Eclipse lunar de 16 de agosto de 2008 Portuguese 2008年8月16日月食 Chinese
| Partial lunar eclipse 2008/8/16 [1] | |
|---|---|
| Saros (member) | 138 (29) |
| Recent | <S <T < > T> S> |
 Cape Town, South Africa | |
 The Moon passes right to left through the Earth's northern shadow | |
| Gamma[1] | 0.5647 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | 3:08:08 |
| Penumbral | 5:30:31 |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | 18:24:50 UTC |
| U1 | 19:36:05 UTC |
| Greatest | 21:10:06 UTC |
| U4 | 22:44:13 UTC |
| P4 | 23:55:21 UTC |
 At ascending node in Capricornus | |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on 16 August 2008, the second of two lunar eclipses in 2008, with the first being a total eclipse on 20 February 2008. The next lunar eclipse was a penumbral eclipse occurring on 9 February 2009, while the next total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 December 2010.
The Moon's apparent diameter was 26.2 arcseconds smaller than the 21 February 2008 total lunar eclipse.
- ^ Gamma is the minimum distance of the Moon's shadow axis from Earth's centre in Earth radii at greatest eclipse.
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