November 2003 lunar eclipse
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Total Lunar Eclipse November 8-9, 2003
Totality from Oudenaarde, Belgium, 1:08 UTC
The moon's path through the earth's shadow
Series	126 (member 45 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	24:32
Partial	3:32:04
Penumbral	6:06:48
Contacts
P1	22:15:10 UTC
U1	23:32:30 UTC
U2	1:06:17 UTC
Greatest	1:18:33
U3	1:30:48 UTC
U4	3:04:34 UTC
P4	4:21:58 UTC
The moon's path across shadow in Aries.

A total lunar eclipse took place on November 9, 2003, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2003.

The first total lunar eclipse occurred on May 16, 2003.

Photo gallery

1:00 UT (Just before totality)	1:16 UT (Near greatest eclipse)	1:35 UT (Just after of totality)
From Minneapolis, Minnesota

1:08 UT, Oudenaarde, Belgium

Near Ottawa, Canada

Relation to other lunar eclipses

This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, November 8-9, each separated by 19 years:

1. November 8, 1984 [1] - penumbral (Saros series 116)
2. November 9, 2003 - total (Saros series 126)
3. November 8, 2022 [2] - total (Saros series 136)
4. November 8, 2041 [3] - partial (Saros series 146)

The moon's path through the earth's shadow near its ascending node progresses northward through each sequential eclipse. The second and third are total eclipses.

See also

• List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st century lunar eclipses
• Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
• May 2003 lunar eclipse
• May 2004 lunar eclipse
• October 2004 lunar eclipse

External links

• NASA charts
• NASA Saros series 126
• Photos: Lunar Eclipse 8 November 2003

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