February 1990 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse February 9, 1990
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	133 (25 of 71)
Gamma	-0.4148
Magnitude	1.0750
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	42:18
Partial	3:24:18
Penumbral	5:39:36
Contacts (UTC)
P1	16:22:14
U1	17:29:53
U2	18:50:53
Greatest	19:12:02
U3	19:33:11
U4	20:54:11
P4	22:01:50

A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, February 9, 1990, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1990.^[1]

Visibility

It was visible from all of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The eclipse is sighted over the Philippines since the one that happened on February 20, 1989.

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1990

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1988–1991
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Gamma	Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Gamma
113	1988 Mar 03	Penumbral	0.98855	118	1988 Aug 27	Partial	−0.86816
123	1989 Feb 20	Total	0.29347	128	1989 Aug 17	Total	−0.14905
133	1990 Feb 09	Total	−0.41481	138	1990 Aug 06	Partial	0.63741
143	1991 Jan 30	Penumbral	−1.07522	148	1991 Jul 26	Penumbral	1.43698

Last set	1987 Apr 14			Last set	1987 Oct 07

Next set	1991 Dec 21			Next set	1991 Jun 27

Lunar Saros 133

This lunar eclipse is part of series 133 of the Saros cycle, which repeats every 18 years and 11 days. Series 133 runs from the year 1557 until 2819. The previous eclipse of this series occurred on January 30, 1972 and the next will occur on February 21, 2008.

It is the 5th of 21 total lunar eclipses in series 133. The first was on December 28, 1917. The last (21st) will be on August 3, 2278. The longest two occurrences of this series (14th and 15th) will last for a total of 1 hour and 42 minutes on May 18, 2152 and May 30, 2170. Solar saros 140 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Tritos series

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of March 13, 1979

Followed: Lunar eclipse of January 9, 2001

Tzolkinex

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of December 30, 1982

Followed: Lunar eclipse of March 24, 1997

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 140.