The Analysis of 54 Lunar Eclipses by Byron Soulsby
Table 1 - Summary of crater timings
(I) = immersions, (E) = emersions
Date Eclipse   (I)   Mean error  
Sequence Type No (E) %E +/- Participating Countries
1972 Jan 30 Total 0 (I) - - Australia
0 0 (E) - -
1974 Nov 29 Total 64 (I) 1.741 0.0975 Australia
1 23 (E) 2.2921 0.668
1978 Mar 24 Total 386 (I) 2.1966 0.1371 Australia, South Africa
2 64 (E) 2.1471 0.2289
1978 Sep 16 Total 689 (I) 1.9906 0.1188 Australia
3 57 (E) 2.0246 0.1401
1979 Mar 13 Partial 50 (I) 2.2303 0.135 South Africa
4 0 (E)    
1979 Sep 6 Total 206 (I) 1.9591 0.1511 Australia, NZ, USA
5 265 (E) 1.862 0.1281
1981 Jul 17 Partial 86 (I) 2.1073 0.2328 South Africa, Brazil
6 0 (E)    
1982 Jan 9 Total 359 (I) 2.1047 0.1556 Australia
7 1 (E) 2.2044 -
1982 Jul 6 Partial 65 (I) 2.0953 0.3286 Australia, NZ, Brazil
8 289 (E) 2.1825 0.1594
1982 Dec 30 Total 45 (I) 1.8291 0.1372 Australia, NZ
9 88 (E) 1.7717 0.1083
1983 Jun 25 Partial 99 (I) 2.0283 0.134 Australia, NZ
10 62 (E) 2.15 0.1901
1985 May 4 Total 576 (I) 2.0363 0.1636 Australia, Brazil, NZ, South Africa, Philippines, Spain, Austria
11 202 (E) 1.9069 0.1197
1985 Oct 28 Total 291 (I) 2.4873 0.1538 Australia, Italy, South Africa, NZ, Zimbabwe, UK, Cyprus, Singapore
12 84 (E) 1.9198 0.2609
1986 Apr 24 Total 683 (I) 2.0062 0.0875 Australia, Italy, NZ
13 435 (E) 2.1028 0.1529
1986 Oct 17 Total 462 (I) 2.1488 0.1777 Australia, Italy, NZ, Brazil, Austria, UK, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, Spain
14 273 (E) 2.1313 0.1368
1988 Mar 3 Partial 5 (I) 2.6725 0.0294 Australia, NZ, USA, Italy, UK
15 5 (E) 2.061 0.0252
1988 Aug 27 Partial 44 (I) 2.2655 0.2176 Australia, NZ
16 75 (E) 1.9514 0.0995
1989 Feb 20 Total 334 (I) 2.2425 0.0846 Australia, NZ
17 239 (E) 2.0021 0.0902
1989 Aug 17 Total 357 (I) 2.1589 0.145 Australia, Italy, Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Portugal, UK, Belgium, Austria
18 83 (E) 1.882 0.2906
1990 Feb 9 Total 247 (I) 2.1511 0.1688 Brazil, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands
19 184 (E) 2.3116 0.097
1990 Aug 6 Partial 59 (I) 2.5023 0.1714 Australia
20 48 (E) 2.063 0.1387
1991 Dec 21 Partial 0 (I) Clouded out Australia
21 0 (E)
1992 Jun 15 Partial 86 (I) 2.2488 0.1447 NZ, Brazil
22 76 (E) 1.947 0.187
1992 Dec 9 Total 116 (I) 2.2998 0.1681 UK, Brazil, Portugal, Spain
23 40 (E) 2.4117 0.238
1993 Jun 4 Total 194 (I) 1.9025 0.1095 Australia
24 129 (E) 2.0421 0.1582
1993 Nov 29 Total 39 (I) 2.2812 0.1115 Brazil
25 8 (E) 2.1041 0.2464
1994 May 25 Partial 5 (I) 2.8899 0.2111 Brazil
26 5 (E) 2.8709 0.1971
1995 Apr 15 Partial 36 (I) 1.9147 0.115 Australia
27 42 (E) 2.2772 0.0542
1996 Apr 4 Total 333 (I) 2.2382 0.1066 Netherlands, Brazil, Belgium, Spain
28 303 (E) 2.2927 0.113
1996 Sep 27 Total 170 (I) 2.2734 0.1274 Italy, Belgium, Netherlands
29 95 (E) 1.9912 0.1921
1997 Mar 24 Partial 101 (I) 2.2535 0.1265 Italy, Brazil
30 90 (E) 2.0053 0.0986
1997 Sep 16 Total 328 (I) 2.1298 0.11 Australia, Slovakia, Italy
31, WC 1 212 (E) 1.9476 0.142
1998 Mar 13 Pen Only images were analysed Australia, France
32
1998 Aug 6 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
33
1998 Sep 6 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
34
1999 Jan 31 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
35, WC 2
1999 Jul 28 Partial 25 (I) 2.3072 0.0994 Australia
36, WC 3 27 (E) 2.0066 0.0932
2000 Jan 21 Total 235 (I) 2.3349 0.1444 Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Italy
37, WC 4 65 (E) 1.7922 0.1974
2000 Jul 16 Total 233 (I) 1.9565 0.1272 Australia
38, WC 5 175 (E) 2.098 0.101
2001 Jan 9 Total 221 (I) 2.1816 0.0894 Australia, Poland, South Africa
39 94 (E) 1.9828 0.1369
2001 Jul 5 Partial 9 (I) 2.6765 0.2839 Australia
40 9 (E) 2.5488 0.3406
2001 Dec 30 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
41
2002 May 26 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
42
2002 Jun 24 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
43
2002 Nov 20 Pen Only images were analysed Australia
44
2003 May 16 Total 163 (I) 2.0234 0.0986 South Africa, Brazil, Italy
45 76 (E) 1.8993 0.0508
2003 Nov 9 Total 254 (I) 2.1845 0.1168 South Africa, Brazil
46 187 (E) 1.9282 0.1274 (includes 116 predictions)
2004 May 4 Total 49 (I) 1.9331 0.1866 South Africa, Brazil, UK
47 46 (E) 1.9036 0.2197
2004 Oct 28 Total 141 (I) 2.2338 0.153 South Africa, Brazil, Austria, USA
48 38 (E) 1.8746 0.1252
2005 Apr 24 Pen Only images were analysed, penumbra not seen due to cloud. Australia
49
2005 Oct 17 Partial Only 65 images were analysed for a "live" web-page, and to determine first and fourth contacts. Australia
50
2006 Mar 14 Penumbral This eclipse was to be observed in Cairo, but was unsuccessful. Australia
51
2006 Sep 7/8 Partial 9 (I) 1.2916 0.505 Australia, South Africa
1 (E) 1.6685  
Video records were made of this eclipse to determine the exact time of first primary contact. Analysis of the video images confirmed the Improved Lunar Eclipse Ephemerides time of 108 seconds later than other predictions, using the umbral oblateness of 1/102.
52
2007 Mar 3 Total 33 (I) 2.3549 0.182 South Africa, Brazil
53 44 (E) 2.4712 0.152
2007 Aug 28 Total 46 (I) 2.0268 0.048 Australia, New Zealand
54 46 (E) 1.6764 0.076  
Multiple images from a web camera were measured to give the size of the umbra. An LPI camera was used to record primary contact images and digital crater timings.  
 
Mean Values   (I) 2.212 0.148
(E) 2.121 0.167
Legend for Table 1
Sequence is the number of the eclipse in the Soulsby series
No is the number of crater timing observations statistically accepted for analysis
Type of eclipse is Total, Partial or Penumbral. For the latter no crater timings are possible
%E is the percent enlargement of the umbra, where 0<%E<4 for the current analysis
Mean Error is the error of the mean, the standard deviation / (No)1/2