October 2004 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse October 27–28, 2004
Fred Espenak, 3:03 UT Dunkirk, Maryland
The moon's path through the Earth's shadow.
Series (and member)	136 (19)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	01:21:14
Partial	03:39:20
Penumbral	05:57:08
Contacts
P1	00:05:35 UTC
U1	01:14:26 UTC
U2	02:23:28 UTC
Greatest	03:04:07 UTC
U3	03:44:43 UTC
U4	04:53:45 UTC
P4	06:02:44 UTC
The moon's path across shadow in Aries.

A total lunar eclipse took place on October 28, 2004, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2004, the first being on May 4, 2004.^[1] It was the first lunar eclipse to take place during a World Series game,^[2][3] which coincidentally featured the Boston Red Sox winning their first world series in 86 years to end the curse of the bambino.

Visibility

This eclipse was completely visible from all of North and South America, and visible from most of Europe and Africa.

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

It is the third of four lunar year cycles, repeating every 354 days.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2002–2005
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart		Saros Photo	Date View	Type Chart
111	2002 May 26	penumbral		116	2002 Nov 20	penumbral
121	2003 May 16	total		126	2003 Nov 09	total
131	2004 May 04	total		136	2004 Oct 28	total
141	2005 Apr 24	penumbral		146	2005 Oct 17	partial
Last set	2002 Jun 24			Last set	2001 Dec 30
Next set	2006 Mar 14			Next set	2006 Sep 7

Saros series

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 136, and the first of the series that passes through the center of the Earth's shadow. The next occurrence will be on November 8, 2022.

Metonic series

This eclipse is the third of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, October 28–29, each separated by 19 years:

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

Metonic events: May 4 and October 28
Ascending node	Descending node
1966 May 4 - Penumbral (111) 1985 May 4 - Total (121) 2004 May 4 - Total (131) 2023 May 5 - Penumbral (141)	1966 Oct 29 - Penumbral (116) 1985 Oct 28 - Total (126) 2004 Oct 28 - Total (136) 2023 Oct 28 - Partial (146)

Photo gallery

• 
  Timelapse photo from Hayward, California
• 
  Ault Field, Washington, 2:29 UT
• 
  Dunkirk, Maryland, 3:03 UT
• 
  From Kiuruvesi, Finland, 3:21 UT
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  Seattle, Washington, USA
  End of totality, 3:43 UT
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  Bellevue, Washington, 3:51 UT
• 
  Timelapse photo from A Coruña, Spain

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
• May 2003 lunar eclipse
• November 2003 lunar eclipse
• May 2004 lunar eclipse

Notes

External links

• NASA
  • Total Lunar Eclipse of Oct. 27, 2004
  • 2004 Oct 28 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Saros series 136
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Red Moon Triple (29 October 2004)
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Pumpkin Moon (30 October 2004)
• Lunar Eclipse gallery
• Photo by Wade B Clark Jr. near Lyman, Washington, USA
• Spaceweather.com: Lunar eclipse gallery

Lunar eclipses
Lists of lunar eclipses	All Central total eclipses Total penumbral eclipses Historically significant
Lunar eclipses by century	20th BCE 19th BCE 18th BCE 17th BCE 16th BCE 15th BCE 14th BCE 13th BCE 12th BCE 11th BCE 10th BCE 9th BCE 8th BCE 7th BCE 6th BCE 5th BCE 4th BCE 3rd BCE 2nd BCE 1st BCE 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th
Lunar eclipses by Saros series	100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163
Partial eclipses 1950–2049	1952 Feb 1952 Aug 1954 Jul 1955 Nov 1956 May 1958 May 1959 Mar 1961 Mar 1961 Aug 1963 Jul 1965 Jun 1970 Feb 1970 Aug 1972 Jul 1973 Dec 1974 Jun 1976 May 1977 Apr 1979 Mar 1981 Jul 1983 Jun 1988 Aug 1990 Aug 1991 Dec 1992 Jun 1994 May 1995 Apr 1997 Mar 1999 Jul 2001 Jul 2005 Oct 2006 Sep 2008 Aug 2009 Dec 2010 Jun 2012 Jun 2013 Apr → 2017 Aug 2019 Jul 2021 Nov 2023 Oct 2024 Sep 2026 Aug 2028 Jan 2028 Jul 2030 Jun 2034 Sep 2035 Aug 2037 Jul 2039 Jun 2039 Nov 2041 May 2041 Nov 2046 Jan 2046 Jul 2048 Jun
Total eclipses 1950–2049	1950 Apr 1950 Sep 1953 Jan 1953 Jul 1954 Jan 1956 Nov 1957 May 1957 Nov 1960 Mar 1960 Sep 1963 Dec 1964 Jun 1964 Dec 1967 Apr 1967 Oct 1968 Apr 1968 Oct 1971 Feb 1971 Aug 1972 Jan 1974 Nov 1975 May 1975 Nov 1978 Mar 1978 Sep 1979 Sep 1982 Jan 1982 Jul 1982 Dec 1985 May 1985 Oct 1986 Apr 1986 Oct 1989 Feb 1989 Aug 1990 Feb 1992 Dec 1993 Jun 1993 Nov 1996 Apr 1996 Sep 1997 Sep 2000 Jan 2000 Jul 2001 Jan 2003 May 2003 Nov 2004 May 2004 Oct 2007 Mar 2007 Aug 2008 Feb 2010 Dec 2011 Jun 2011 Dec 2014 Apr 2014 Oct 2015 Apr 2015 Sep → 2018 Jan 2018 Jul 2019 Jan 2021 May 2022 May 2022 Nov 2025 Mar 2025 Sep 2026 Mar 2028 Dec 2029 Jun 2029 Dec 2032 Apr 2032 Oct 2033 Apr 2033 Oct 2036 Feb 2036 Aug 2037 Jan 2040 May 2040 Nov 2043 Mar 2043 Sep 2044 Mar 2044 Sep 2047 Jan 2047 Jul 2048 Jan
Penumbral eclipses	Partial Previous penumbral: 2016 Sep 16 Next penumbral: → 2017 Feb 11 Total 1963 Jan 09 1981 Jan 20 1988 Mar 03 1999 Jan 31 2006 Mar 14 → 2042 May 05 2053 Aug 29
See also	Danjon scale Gamma
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