October 2032 lunar eclipse

October 2032 lunar eclipse
Total eclipse
	The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left
Date	October 18, 2032
Gamma	0.4169
Magnitude	1.1039
Saros cycle	127 (43 of 72)
Totality	47 minutes, 6 seconds
Partiality	195 minutes, 54 seconds
Penumbral	315 minutes, 24 seconds
P1
Contacts (UTC)
P1	16:25:58
U1	17:25:43
U2	18:40:07
Greatest	19:03:40
U3	19:27:13
U4	20:41:37
P4	21:41:22
	← April 2032 April 2033 →

A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Monday, October 18, 2032,^[1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.1039. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon's shadow is smaller. Occurring about 2.1 days after perigee (on October 16, 2032, at 17:25 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.^[2]

This lunar eclipse is the second of a tetrad, with four total lunar eclipses in series, the others being on April 25, 2032; April 14, 2033; and October 8, 2033.

Visibility

The eclipse will be completely visible over east Africa, Europe, and Asia, seen rising over west Africa and eastern South America and setting over Australia and the western Pacific Ocean.^[3]

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.^[4]

October 18, 2032 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter	Value
Penumbral Magnitude	2.08413
Umbral Magnitude	1.10390
Gamma	0.41692
Sun Right Ascension	13h36m15.4s
Sun Declination	-10°01'20.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter	16'03.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	01h35m47.9s
Moon Declination	+10°25'28.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter	16'22.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	1°00'07.0"
ΔT	75.3 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of October–November 2032
October 18 Descending node (full moon)	November 3 Ascending node (new moon)

Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 127	Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 153

Related eclipses

Lunar eclipses of 2031–2034

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2031-2034
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
Ascending node			Descending node
112	2031 May 07	Penumbral	117	2031 Oct 30	Penumbral
122	2032 Apr 25	Total	127	2032 Oct 18	Total
132	2033 Apr 14	Total	137	2033 Oct 08	Total
142	2034 Apr 03	Penumbral	147	2034 Sep 28	Partial

Last set	2031 Jun 05		Last set	2030 Dec 09

Next set	2035 Feb 22		Next set	2035 Aug 19

Tritos series

The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.

This series produces 20 total eclipses between April 24, 1967 and August 11, 2185, only being partial on November 19, 2021.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2087)
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart
115	1901 Oct 27	Partial	116	1912 Sep 26	Partial
117	1923 Aug 26	Partial	118	1934 Jul 26	Partial
119	1945 Jun 25	Partial	120	1956 May 24	Partial
121	1967 Apr 24	Total	122	1978 Mar 24	Total
123	1989 Feb 20	Total	124	2000 Jan 21	Total
125	2010 Dec 21	Total	126	2021 Nov 19	Partial
127	2032 Oct 18	Total	128	2043 Sep 19	Total
129	2054 Aug 18	Total	130	2065 Jul 17	Total
131	2076 Jun 17	Total	132	2087 May 17	Total
133	2098 Apr 15	Total

Saros 127

Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 134 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 102 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1275 Jul 09	1473 Nov 04	1798 May 29	1834 Jun 21
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1960 Sep 05	2068 Nov 09	2429 Jun 17	2555 Sep 02

1901–2100
1906 Aug 04	1924 Aug 14	1942 Aug 26

1960 Sep 05	1978 Sep 16	1996 Sep 27

2014 Oct 08	2032 Oct 18	2050 Oct 30

2068 Nov 09

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 134.