February 1971 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse February 10, 1971
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	123 (50 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on February 10, 1971. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility[]

It was completely visible from North America, rising from Eastern Asia, Australia, and setting over South America, Europe and Africa.

Related eclipses[]

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1969–1973
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
108	1969 Aug 27	Penumbral	-1.54066	113	1970 Feb 21	Partial	0.96198
118	1970 Aug 17	Partial	-0.80534	123	1971 Feb 10	Total	0.27413
128	1971 Aug 6	Total	-0.07944	133	1972 Jan 30	Total	-0.42729
138	1972 Jul 26	Partial	0.71167	143	1973 Jan 18	Penumbral	-1.08446
148	1973 Jul 15	Penumbral	1.51782

Last set	1969 Sep 25			Last set	1969 Apr 2

Next set	1973 Jun 15			Next set	1973 Dec 10

Saros series[]

Lunar saros series 123, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 25 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on , and last will be on . The two longest occurrence of this series were on and when totality lasted 106 minutes.

It last occurred on January 29, 1953 and will next occur on February 20, 1989.

Half-Saros cycle[]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 130.