March 2026 lunar eclipse
| Total lunar eclipse March 3, 2026 | |
|---|---|
Ecliptic north up The moon will pass through the center of the Earth's shadow. | |
| Saros (and member) | 133 (27 of 71) |
| Gamma | |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | |
| U1 | |
| U2 | |
| Greatest | |
| U3 | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
A total lunar eclipse will take place on March 3, 2026.
Visibility
Related eclipses
Lunar year series
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 113 | 2024 Mar 25 |
Penumbral |
118 | 2024 Sep 18 |
Partial | |
| 123 | 2025 Mar 14 |
Total |
128 | 2025 Sep 07 |
Total | |
| 133 | 2026 Mar 03 |
Total |
138 | 2026 Aug 28 |
Partial | |
| 143 | 2027 Feb 20 |
Penumbral |
148 | 2027 Aug 17 |
Penumbral | |
| Last set | 2023 Oct 28 | Last set | 2023 May 05 | |||
| Next set | 2027 Jul 18 | Next set | 2028 Jan 12 | |||
Saros series
It is part of Saros cycle 133.
Metonic cycle (19 years)
The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the earth's shadow will be in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.
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Inex series
The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.
This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly.
| Descending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Ascending node | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Chart |
Saros | Date Chart |
Saros | Date Chart |
Saros | Date Chart |
| 115 | 1505 Feb 18 |
116 | 1534 Jan 30 |
117 | 1563 Jan 9 | 118 | 1591 Dec 30 |
| 119 | 1620 Dec 9 | 120 | 1649 Nov 19 | 121 | 1678 Oct 29 | 122 | 1707 Oct 11 |
| 123 | 1736 Sep 20 | 124 | 1765 Aug 30 | 125 | 1794 Aug 11 | 126 | 1823 Jul 23 |
| 127 | 1852 Jul 1 | 128 | 1881 Jun 12 | 129 | 1910 May 24 |
130 | 1939 May 3 |
| 131 | 1968 Apr 13 |
132 | 1997 Mar 24 |
133 | 2026 Mar 3 |
134 | 2055 Feb 11 |
| 135 | 2084 Jan 22 |
136 | 2113 Jan 2 | 137 | 2141 Dec 13 | 138 | 2170 Nov 23 |
| 139 | 2199 Nov 2 | 140 | 2228 Oct 14 | 141 | 2257 Sep 24 | 142 | 2286 Sep 3 |
| 143 | 2315 Aug 16 | 144 | 2344 Jul 26 | 145 | 2373 Jul 5 | 146 | 2402 Jun 16 |
| 147 | 2431 May 27 | 148 | 2460 May 5 |
149 | 2489 Apr 16 | ||
See also
External links
- Saros cycle 133
- 2026 Mar 03 chart: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
