September 2025 lunar eclipse

Total lunar eclipse September 7-8, 2025
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Saros (and member)	128 (41 of 71)
Gamma	-0.2752
Magnitude	1.3619
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:22:06
Partial	3:29:24
Penumbral	5:26:40
Contacts (UTC)
P1	15:28:21
U1	16:27:02
U2	17:30:41
Greatest	18:11:43
U3	18:52:47
U4	19:56:26
P4	20:55:00

A total lunar eclipse will take place on 7-8 September 2025. The Moon will barely miss the center of the Earth's shadow. It will be the second of two total lunar eclipses. Occurring roughly 3 days before perigee, the Moon will appear larger than usual.

This eclipse is the second of an almost tetrad, with others being 14 Mar 2025 (T), 03 Mar 2026 (T) and 28 Aug 2026 (P).

Visibility

It will be completely visible over much of Asia, Australia and eastern Africa, will be seen rising over the rest of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia and New Zealand.


Visibility map

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2025

A total lunar eclipse on March 14.
A partial solar eclipse on March 29.
A total lunar eclipse on September 7.
A partial solar eclipse on September 21.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 2024–2027
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type Viewing	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
113	2024 Mar 25	Penumbral	1.06098	118	2024 Sep 18	Partial	−0.97920
123	2025 Mar 14	Total	0.34846	128	2025 Sep 07	Total	−0.27521
133	2026 Mar 03	Total	−0.37651	138	2026 Aug 28	Partial	0.49644
143	2027 Feb 20	Penumbral	−1.04803	148	2027 Aug 17	Penumbral	1.27974

Last set	2023 May 05			Last set	2023 Oct 28

Next set	2028 Jan 12			Next set	2027 Jul 18

Saros series

Lunar saros series 128, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 57 umbral eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 15 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1953 Jul 26, lasting 100.7 minutes.^[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1304 Jun 18	1430 Sep 2	1845 May 21	1899 Jun 23
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2007 Aug 28	2097 May 21	2440 May 17	2566 Aug 2

Lunar Saros 128 contains 15 total lunar eclipses between 1845 and 2097 (in years 1845, 1863, 1881, 1899, 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, 2025, 2043, 2061, 2079 and 2097). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Metonic cycle (19 years)

This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, September 7, each separated by 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 in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

2006 Mar 14.99 - penumbral (113) 2025 Mar 14.29 - total (123) 2044 Mar 13.82 - total (133) 2063 Mar 14.67- partial (143)	2006 Sep 07.79 - partial (118) 2025 Sep 07.76 - total (128) 2044 Sep 07.47 - partial (138) 2063 Sep 07.86 - penumbral (148)

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135.