April 2015 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on 4 April 2015. It is the former of two total lunar eclipses in 2015, and the third in a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of 15 April 2014, 8 October 2014, and 28 September 2015.
| Total eclipse | |||||||||||||||||
Los Angeles, California, 12:00 UTC | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | 4 April 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.4460 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.0008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 132 (30 of 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 4 minutes, 43 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 209 minutes, 1 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 357 minutes, 31 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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This is the 30th member of Lunar Saros 132, and the first total eclipse. The previous event was the March 1997 lunar eclipse, being slightly partial.
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