May 2022 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 15–16 May 2022, the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2022. The event occurred near lunar perigee; as a result, this event was referred to some in media coverage as a "super flower blood moon" and elsewhere as a "super blood moon", a supermoon that coincides with a total lunar eclipse. This was the longest total lunar eclipse visible from nearly all of North America since August 17, 1989 until the next eclipse on November 8.
| Total eclipse | |||||||||||||||||
From Irvine, California at 4:44 UTC | |||||||||||||||||
| Date | 16 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | −0.2532 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.4137 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 131 (34 of 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 84 minutes, 53 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 207 minutes, 14 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 318 minutes, 40 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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The eclipse was a dark one with the northern limb of the Moon passing through the center of Earth's shadow. This was the first central eclipse of Lunar Saros 131.
This lunar eclipse was the third of an almost tetrad, the others being 26 May 2021 (T), 19 Nov 2021 (P) and 08 Nov 2022 (T).