Total lunar eclipse
Tuesday, September 16, 1997 at 06:46 PM UTC
Saros family
Eclipses ~18 years and 11 days apart — same orbital geometry, shifted ~120° west each cycle.
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September 6, 1979
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September 27, 2015
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Peak (UTC)
Tuesday, Sep 16
Type
Total lunar eclipse
Obscuration
100%
Totality duration
62 min
Partial duration
197 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.