page_title: April 2014 lunar eclipse
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: April 2014 lunar eclipse / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Motion of Mars relative to Earth, showing oppositions, 3 day step, with oppositions listed by year and closest distance.
context_page_description: A total lunar eclipse took place on April 15, 2014. It was the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the first in a tetrad. Subsequent eclipses in the tetrad are those of October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015. Occurring 6.7 days after apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
  The Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. This was the last central lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 122.
  The eclipse was visible in the Americas and the Pacific Ocean region, including Australia and New Zealand. This eclipse occurred during the ascending phase of the Moon's orbit, part of lunar saros 122. Mars was near opposition.
context_section_description: On April 15, 2014, the Moon passed through the southern part of the Earth's umbral shadow.  It was visible over most of the Western Hemisphere, including east Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific ocean, and the Americas.  In the western Pacific, the first half of the eclipse occurred before moonrise.  In Europe and Africa, the eclipse began just before moonset. Mars, which had just passed its opposition, appeared at magnitude -1.5 about 9.5° northwest of the Moon.  Spica was 2° to the west, while Arcturus was 32° north.  Saturn was 26° east and Antares 44° southeast.
  The Moon entered Earth's penumbral shadow at 4:54 UTC and the umbral shadow at 5:58. Totality lasted for 1 hour 18 minutes, from 7:07 to 8:25. The moment of greatest eclipse occurred at 7:47.  At that point, the Moon's zenith was approximately 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) southwest of the Galápagos Islands.  The Moon left the umbra shadow at 9:33 and the penumbra shadow at 10:38.
  The peak umbral magnitude was 1.2907, at which moment the northern part of the moon was 1.7 arc-minutes south of the center of Earth's shadow, while the southern part was 40.0 arc-minutes from center.  The gamma of the eclipse was -0.3017.
  The eclipse was a member of Lunar Saros 122. It was the 56th such eclipse.
caption: The planet Mars was near opposition, as shown in this geo-centered motion of Mars from 2003-2018.
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