TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE JULY 16th 2000.
The total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday July 16th 2000 is the longest duration total lunar eclipse since August 1859. Totality lasts for 1 hour 47 minutes and 1 second. The eclipse is visible from Asia, Austraia, Western America and much of Eastern Africa. It is not visible from Europe and the UK. Nevertheless this is a 'strong' eclipse. Astrologers may well attribute powerful influences to it. The view here is that it is a blisteringly energetic event and that its influence may tend to the wayward and to the climatic.
The Saros series to which this eclipse belongs is at the peak of cycle. This eclipse is member 37 of the series of 71. The last eclipse of this series was July 6th 1982.
Timings of the eclipse are shown below:- (GMT)
Penumbral phase starts 10.47
Umbral phase starts 11.57
Totality starts 13.02
Greatest Eclipse 13.55
Totality ends 14.49
Umbral phase ends 15.54
Penumbral phase ends 17.04
The eclipse is at 24 degrees Capricorn, weakly opposite Mars and trine Saturn. Venus is opposite Neptune and sextile Jupiter.
At the moment of greatest eclipse the Moon is conjunct the MC of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific ocean, and is also on the MC of Brisbane. Uranus is conjunct the MC of Fiji and is at lower culmination at London, Venus is conjunct the MC of the Canary Islands. At Detroit USA Jupiter is conjunct the MC, Venus is due east, Neptune due West. Nashville USA has the eclipsed Moon due West, the Sun due east and Saturn conjunct the MC. Pluto is conjunct the MC of Saigon (a city highlighted by the partial solar eclipse two weeks earlier). Across Southern India Neptune rises and Venus sets, the Eclipsed Moon rises at Amritsar India and Lahore in Pakistan. Pluto rises over Crete and southern Greece where also both Jupiter and Saturn sets.
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