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Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC
Collected from:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080226050949/http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEcat/LEcatalog.html
Key:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070314015601/http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEcat/LEcatkey.html
Column Heading Definition/Description
1 Date Calendar Date (Gregorian) at instant of
Greatest Eclipse.
2 Greatest Universal Time (UT) of Greatest Eclipse, which is
Eclipse defined as the instant when Moon passes closest
to the axis of Earth's shadows.
3 Type Type of lunar eclipse where:
N = Penumbral Eclipse.
P = Partial (Umbral) Eclipse.
T = Total (Umbral) Eclipse.
(Tc = central total eclipse)
If the Type ends with:
"m" = Middle eclipse of Saros series.
"+" = Central eclipse (Moon north of axis).
"-" = Central eclipse (Moon south of axis).
"b" = Saros series begins (first eclipse in series).
"e" = Saros series ends (last eclipse in series).
4 Saros Saros series of eclipse.
(Each eclipse in a Saros is separated by an interval
of 18 years 11.3 days.)
5 Gamma Distance of the Moon from the axis of Earth's
shadow cone (units of equatorial radii) at the
instant of greatest eclipse.
6 Pen. Penumbral eclipse magnitude is the fraction of
Mag. the Moon's diameter obscured by the penumbra.
7 Umb. Umbral eclipse magnitude is the fraction of
Mag. the Moon's diameter obscured by the umbra.
8 S.D. Semi-duration of partial (umbral) eclipse (minutes).
Par
9 S.D. Semi-duration of total (umbral) eclipse (minutes).
Tot
10 GST0 Greenwich Sidereal Time at 00:00 U.T..
11 Moon Geocentric Right Ascension of the Moon
RA at greatest eclipse (hours).
12 Moon Geocentric Declination of the Moon
Dec at greatest eclipse (degrees).
U.T.
Greatest Saros Pen. Umb. S.D. S.D. GST Moon Moon
Date Eclipse Type # Gamma Mag. Mag. Par Tot (0 UT) RA Dec
h h deg
2001 Jan 09 20:21 T 134 0.372 2.187 1.194 99m 31m 7.3 7.42 22.4
2001 Jul 05 14:55 P 139 -0.729 1.573 0.499 80m - 18.9 18.99 -23.4
2001 Dec 30 10:29 N 144 1.073 0.919 -0.110 - - 6.6 6.64 24.2
2002 May 26 12:03 N 111 1.176 0.714 -0.283 - - 16.3 16.23 -20.0