A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 27, 1996, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1996, the first being on Thursday, April 4. This is the 41st member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the September 1978 lunar eclipse. The next event is the October 2014 lunar eclipse.

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Total Lunar Eclipse September 27, 1996
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	127 (41 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:09:12
Partial	3:23:17
Penumbral	5:20:52
Contacts
P1	0:13:59 UTC
U1	1:12:43
U2	2:19:46
Greatest	2:54:22
U3	3:28:57
U4	4:35:59
P4	5:34:51

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This eclipse was the second of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 04 Apr 1996 (T), 24 Mar 1997 (P) and 16 Sep 1997 (T).

It was visible from all of North and South America, Europe and Africa.

During its totality, the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite's SPIRIT-III instrument took the image of the Moon in mid-infrared. At these wavelengths, MSX was able to characterize the thermal (heat) distribution of the lunar surface during the eclipse. The brightest regions are the warmest, and the darkest areas are the coolest. The well-known crater Tycho is the bright object to the south of center. Numerous other craters are also seen as bright spots, indicating that their temperature is higher than in the surrounding dark mare.^[1]

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• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses