July 1954 lunar eclipse
Partial Lunar Eclipse July 16, 1954 | |
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(No photo) | |
![]() The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
Series | 138 (26 of 83) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
Greatest | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on July 16, 1954.[1]
Visibility[]
Related lunar eclipses[]
Lunar year series[]
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
103 | 1951 Feb 21![]() |
Penumbral![]() |
108 | 1951 Aug 17![]() |
Penumbral![]() | |
113 | 1952 Feb 11![]() |
Partial![]() |
118 | 1952 Aug 5![]() |
Partial![]() | |
123 | 1953 Jan 29![]() |
Total![]() |
128 | 1953 Jul 26![]() |
Total![]() | |
133 | 1954 Jan 19![]() |
Total![]() |
138 | 1954 Jul 16![]() |
Partial![]() | |
143 | 1955 Jan 8![]() |
Penumbral![]() | ||||
Last set | 1951 Mar 23 | Last set | 1951 Sep 15 | |||
Next set | 1955 Nov 29 | Next set | 1955 Jun 5 |
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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 145.
July 9, 1945 | July 20, 1963 |
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See also[]
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes[]
- ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 138
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[]
- 1954 Jul 16 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
Categories:
- 20th-century lunar eclipses
- 1954 in science
- July 1954 events
- Lunar eclipse stubs