A total lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday 8 October 2014. It is the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the second in a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of 15 April 2014, 4 April 2015, and 28 September 2015. Occurring only 2.1 days after perigee (Perigee on 6 October 2014), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger, 1960.6 arcseconds (32 arcminutes, 40.6 arcseconds).

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Total lunar eclipse 8 October 2014
From Lomita, California, 10:55 UTC
Ecliptic north up The Moon passes right to left (west to east) through Earth's shadow
Saros (and member)	127 (42 of 72)
Gamma	0.3826
Magnitude	1.1659
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	0:58:50
Partial	3:19:31
Penumbral	5:18:03
Contacts (UTC)
P1	8:15:36
U1	9:14:48
U2	10:25:09
Greatest	10:54:35
U3	11:23:59
U4	12:34:19
P4	13:33:39

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This is the 42nd member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the September 1996 lunar eclipse. The next event is October 2032 lunar eclipse.

The eclipse was visible in its entirety over the Northern Pacific. Viewers in North America experienced the eclipse after midnight on Wednesday, 8 October, and the eclipse was visible from the Philippines, Western Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and Eastern Asia after sunset on the evening of 8 October. Many areas of North America experienced a selenelion, able to see both the sun and the eclipsed moon at the same time.^[1]

The MESSENGER spacecraft from orbit at the planet Mercury which was 107 million kilometers away from Earth at the time also observed the eclipse, making it the first lunar eclipse in history to be observed from another planet.^[2][3]

Simulation of Earth from the Moon.

Visibility

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes within Earth's umbra (shadow). As the eclipse begins, the Earth's shadow first darkens the Moon slightly. Then, the shadow begins to "cover" part of the Moon, turning it a dark red-brown color (typically - the color can vary based on atmospheric conditions). The Moon appears to be reddish because of Rayleigh scattering (the same effect that causes sunsets to appear reddish) and the refraction of that light by the Earth's atmosphere into its umbra.^[4] The following simulation shows the approximate appearance of the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow. The Moon's brightness is exaggerated within the umbral shadow. The southern portion of the Moon was closest to the center of the shadow, making it darkest, and most red in appearance.

The planet Uranus was near opposition (opposition on 7 October^[5]) during the eclipse, just over 1° from the eclipsed Moon. Shining at magnitude 5.7, Uranus should have been bright enough to identify in binoculars. Due to parallax, the position of Uranus relative to the Moon varied significantly depending on the viewing position on the surface of Earth.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lunar eclipse of 2014 October 8.

• Minneapolis, MN, 9:46 UTC, triple exposure
• Before the beginning of total eclipse, Valdosta, GA, 10:02 UTC
• Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 10:26 UTC
• California, 10:39 UTC
• Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 10:41 UTC
• The eclipse with Uranus in Minneapolis, 10:46 UTC
• After the end of total eclipse, Santa Clara County, CA, 11:28 UTC
• Partial phase of the eclipse, Hefei, China, 12:18 UTC
• Minneapolis, MN, 12:24 UTC
• Lunar eclipse as viewed from Mercury, captured from the MESSENGER spacecraft. The Moon can be seen falling into the shadow of Earth. This movie was constructed from 31 images taken two minutes apart, from 9:18 UTC to 10:18 UTC.

† The Moon was not visible during this part of the eclipse in this time zone.

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