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The Partial Lunar Eclipse of July 16th, 2019

This second and last lunar eclipse in 2019 is a partial lunar eclipse, the partial lunar eclipse of July 16th, 2019. A partial eclipse occurs when the Moon is partially passing only into the Earth's dark 'umbra', leading to that some part of the Moon is neatly indented. for more about Moon eclipses, theoretically, see our tutorial: Moon Eclipses. The partial lunar eclipse of July 16th, 2019 is neatly a partial with about two-thirds of the Moon passing into Earth's umbra! The eclipse will concern the northern parts of the Moon which will be clearly indented. Thus a eclipse worth the interest!

The whole of that partial eclipse is observable from western Russia to the Middle East, and most of Africa. Either side of that, observers will either have the eclipse already encours by moonrise or the eclipse interrupted by moonset. South America mostly, and Europe of westernmost Africa rank in the first case as a area from western Siberia, Russia to Australia and to Japan into the second! North America and most of the Pacific ocean area have no eclipse at all

The eclipse's main data are the following (data as of November 2018). for more about how to observe a lunar eclipse, see our tutorial 'Observing a Moon Eclipse':
- umbral magnitude (fraction of Moon's diameter immersed in the umbra at greatest): 0.6531
- greatest eclipse: 21:30:46 UT
- eclipse duration (penumbral): 05h33mn49s
- eclipse duration (umbral): 02h57m58s
- eclipse contacts (in UT): P1 (penumbral eclipse begins) at 18:43:52, U1 (partial eclipse begins) at 20:01:44, U4 (partial eclipse ends) at 22:59:42, P4 (penumbral eclipse ends) at 00:17:41. No U2 nor U3 which occur during a total lunar eclipse only

see a map for the total lunar eclipse of July 16th, 2019 (path of the Moon within the Earth's umbra and map of the visibility of the eclipse worldwide).

. for more about this eclipse and for more about solar and lunar eclipses generally, you may see at the Internet, with Fred Espenak a reference in the domain