Total lunar eclipse
Thursday, April 4, 1996 at 12:09 AM UTC
Saros family
Eclipses ~18 years and 11 days apart — same orbital geometry, shifted ~120° west each cycle.
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Total lunar eclipse
March 24, 1978
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April 15, 2014
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Peak (UTC)
Wednesday, Apr 3
Type
Total lunar eclipse
Obscuration
100%
Totality duration
87 min
Partial duration
218 min
More eclipses to explore
Browse the catalog by date — the next and previous eclipses by peak time, regardless of type. For closely related events of the same type spaced ~18 years apart, see the Saros family panel on the left.