lunar eclipse on 8 October. A partial solar eclipse on 23 October. The eclipse is the one of four total lunar eclipses in a short-lived series at the descending node of the Moon's orbit. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations, or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, Earth's shadow will be about 11° west in sequential events. Half-Saros cycle A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of solar saros 134. Saros series Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 134 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. Tzolkinex Preceded: Lunar eclipse of August 28, 2007 Followed: Lunar eclipse of November 19, 2021 See also April 2014 lunar eclipse List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses References Wake Up to October 8th's Total Lunar Eclipse (SkyandTelescope.com) Hermit eclipse: 2014-10-08 Total Lunar Eclipse, October 2014 InfoSite - Mattastro Animation of the October 8 2014 eclipse at shadowandsubstance.com 2014-10 2014 in science October 2014 events