December 1982 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse December 30, 1982
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	134 (25 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:00:03
Partial	3:15:53
Penumbral	5:10:34
Contacts
P1	8:53:27 UTC^[1]
U1	9:50:48 UTC
U2	10:58:43 UTC
Greatest	11:29:37 TDT^[2] 11:28:44 UTC ^[2]
U3	11:58:46 UTC
U4	13:06:41 UTC
P4	14:04:01 UTC

A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, December 30, 1982. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour 3 seconds. The Moon was 18% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 16 minutes in total.^[3] This was a supermoon since perigee was on the same day. It was also a blue moon, the second full moon of December for the eastern hemisphere where the previous full moon was on December 1.^[4] Since total lunar eclipses are also known as blood moons, this combination (which would not recur until January 31, 2018^[4]) is known as a super blue blood moon.^[4]

Visibility

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1982

There are seven eclipses in 1982, the maximum possible, including 4 partial solar eclipses: January 25, July 20, June 21, and December 15.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1980–1984
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1980 Jul 27	Penumbral	1.41391	114	1981 Jan 20	Penumbral	−1.01421
119	1981 Jul 17	Partial	0.70454	124	1982 Jan 09	Total	−0.29158
129	1982 Jul 06	Total	−0.05792	134	1982 Dec 30	Total	0.37579
139	1983 Jun 25	Partial	−0.81520	144	1983 Dec 20	Penumbral	1.07468
149	1984 Jun 13	Penumbral	−1.52403

Last set	1980 Aug 26			Last set	1980 Mar 13

Next set	1984 May 15			Next set	1984 Nov 08

Tritos series

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of March 13, 1979

Followed: Lunar eclipse of January 9, 2001

Tzolkinex

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of November 18, 1975

Followed: Lunar eclipse of February 9, 1990

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[5] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 141.