January 2000 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse January 21, 2000
From New York
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Gamma	-0.2957
Series (and member)	124 (48 of 74)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:16:59
Partial	3:23:19
Penumbral	5:18:12
Contacts
P1	2:04:26 UTC
U1	3:01:50 UTC
U2	4:05:01 UTC
Greatest	4:43:31 UTC
U3	5:22:00 UTC
U4	6:25:09 UTC
P4	7:22:38 UTC
The Moon passed straight through the center of the Earth's shadow at the descending node in Saggitarius

A total lunar eclipse took place on January 21, 2000, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2000.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1998–2002

Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
109	1998 Aug 08	Penumbral		114	1999 Jan 31	Penumbral
119	1999 Jul 28	Partial		124	2000 Jan 21	Total
129	2000 Jul 16	Total		134	2001 Jan 09	Total
139	2001 Jul 05	Partial		144	2001 Dec 30	Penumbral
149	2002 Jun 24	Penumbral
Last set	1998 Sep 06			Last set	1998 Mar 13
Next set	2002 May 26			Next set	2002 Nov 20

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 1, 2167, only being partial on November 19, 2021.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)

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	2058 Jun 6	Total		130	2069 May 6	Total
131	2080 Apr 4	Total		132	2091 Mar 5	Total

See also

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

External links

• Saros cycle 124
• 2000 Jan 21 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC