May 2021 lunar eclipseBy Vnita Kasnia PunjabLanguageDownload PDFWatchEditTotal lunar eclipseMay 26, 2021Ecliptic north up4The moon will pass through Earth's shadow.Saros (and ,member) 121
May 2021 lunar eclipse By Vnita Kasnia Punjab Language Download PDF Watch Edit Total lunar eclipse May 26, 2021 Ecliptic north up The moon will pass through Earth's shadow. Saros (and member) 121 (56 of 84) [1] Gamma +0.4774 [1] Duration (hr:mn:sc) Totality 0:14:30 [1] Partial 3:07:25 [1] Penumbral 5:02:05 Contacts ( UTC ) P1 8:47:39 [1] U1 9:44:57 [1] U2 11:11:25 [1] Greatest 11:18:40 [1] U3 11:25:55 [1] U4 12:52:22 [1] P4 13:49:41 [1] A total lunar eclipse will take place on 26 May 2021. [1] A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow . This can occur only when the Sun , Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy ) with Earth between the other two, which can only happen the night of a full moon . The eclipsed moon appears as a faint red disk in the sky due to a small amount of light being refracted through the earth's atmosphere. It will be the first total lunar eclipse s...