July 1954 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse July 16, 1954
(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[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1951–1955

Descending node				Ascending node
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

See also[]

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

Notes[]

External links[]

• 1954 Jul 16 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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