May 1994 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse May 25, 1994
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	140 (24 of 80)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, May 25, 1994, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1994, the second being with a penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday, November 18.

• An annular solar eclipse on May 10.
• A partial lunar eclipse on May 25.
• A total solar eclipse on November 3.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 18.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1991–1994
Ascending node					Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1991 Jun 27	Penumbral	−1.40641		115	1991 Dec 21	Partial	0.97094
120	1992 Jun 15	Partial	−0.62887		125	1992 Dec 9	Total	0.31438
130	1993 Jun 4	Total	0.16376		135	1993 Nov 29	Total	−0.39941
140	1994 May 25	Partial	0.89334		145	1994 Nov 18	Penumbral	−1.10479
Last set	1991 Jul 26				Last set	1991 Jan 30
Next set	1995 Apr 15				Next set	1995 Oct 08

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 147.

May 19, 1985	May 31, 2003

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

• Saros cycle 140
• 1994 May 25 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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