November 2003 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse November 8-9, 2003
Totality from Oudenaarde, Belgium, 1:08 UTC
The moon's path through the Earth's shadow
Series	126 (member 45 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	24:32
Partial	3:32:04
Penumbral	6:06:48
Contacts
P1	22:15:10 UTC
U1	23:32:30 UTC
U2	1:06:17 UTC
Greatest	1:18:33
U3	1:30:48 UTC
U4	3:04:34 UTC
P4	4:21:58 UTC
The moon's path across shadow in Aries.

A total lunar eclipse took place on November 9, 2003, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2003, the first being on May 16, 2003.

Visibility

Photo gallery

1:00 UT (Just before totality)	1:16 UT (Near greatest eclipse)	1:35 UT (Just after of totality)
From Minneapolis, Minnesota

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  1:08 UT, Oudenaarde, Belgium

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  Near Ottawa, Canada

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

It is the second 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

Metonic series

This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, November 8-9, 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 be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

1984 May 15 - penumbral (111) 2003 May 16 - total (121) 2022 May 16 - total (131) 2041 May 16 - penumbral (141)	1984 Nov 8 - penumbral (116) 2003 Nov 9 - total (126) 2022 Nov 8 - total (136) 2041 Nov 8 - partial (146) 2060 Nov 8 - penumbral (156)

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st century lunar eclipses
• Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
• May 2003 lunar eclipse
• May 2004 lunar eclipse
• October 2004 lunar eclipse

External links

• Saros cycle 126
• 2003 Nov 09 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
• NASA Saros series 126
• Photos: Lunar Eclipse 8 November 2003
• Spaceweather.com: Lunar eclipse gallery Nov 8, 2003