Total lunar eclipse
on Nov 8, 2022
| Saros series | No. 136, Member: 20 of 72 |
| Maximum magnitude | 1.359 |
| Start of Penumbral | 17:02.3 JST (+0900) |
| Start of Umbral | 18:09.2 JST (+0900) |
| Start of Totality | 19:16.6 JST (+0900) |
| Maximum eclipse | 19:59.1 JST (+0900) |
| End of Totality | 20:41.6 JST (+0900) |
| End of Umbral | 21:49.0 JST (+0900) |
| End of Penumbral | 22:56.1 JST (+0900) |
Before midnight on Nov 8, 2022, a total lunar eclipse was observed across the country under very favorable conditions.
The upper half of the picture shows the state of the Moon with a copper-colored total eclipse.
We were blessed with generally fine weather that day, able to see the entire progress of the lunar eclipse without being blocked by clouds.
From the next page onwards, I have provided plural pages displaying the lunar eclipse.
Also, during this total lunar eclipse, a Uranus occultation occurred at the same time.
The bottom half of the group photo shows the situation at the time of its disappearance and appearance.
Uranus with an apparent diameter of 4 arc seconds was observed to disappear behind the Moon for about 20 seconds and reappear.
The overlap of discrete two eclipse phenomena is extremely rare, and can only be seen once every several hundred to several thousand years, both in the past and in the future.
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