June 2011 lunar eclipse


A total lunar eclipse took place on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second occurred on December 10, 2011. While the visual effect of a total eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse.
This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth's shadow passes across the moon. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse was on July 27, 2018 over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia.

Visibility and viewing

In western Asia, Australia, and the Philippines, the lunar eclipse was visible just before sunrise. It was very visible in the clear and cloudless night sky throughout eastern and southeast Asia. Africa, far eastern Russia and Europe witnessed the whole event even in the late stages. The Americas missed the eclipse completely because it occurred at moonset.

Visibility map
This simulation shows the view of the earth from the moon at greatest eclipse.

Photo gallery

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2011

It was preceded by the partial solar eclipse of January 4, 2011, and the partial solar eclipse of June 1, 2011.

Semester series

This eclipse is the center of nine lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. Each eclipse in the series repeats after one semester occurring at alternating nodes.

Saros series

Tritos series

Inex series

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days. This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 137.
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