March 1959 lunar eclipse
Partial Lunar Eclipse March 24, 1959 | |
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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 | 112 (62 of 72) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
Greatest | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on March 24, 1959.[1]
Visibility[]
Related lunar eclipses[]
Lunar year series[]
Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
102 | 1958 Apr 4 |
Penumbral | ||||
112 | 1959 Mar 24 |
Partial |
117 | 1959 Sep 17 |
Penumbral | |
122 | 1960 Mar 13 |
Total |
127 | 1960 Sep 5 |
Total | |
132 | 1961 Mar 2 |
Partial |
137 | 1961 Aug 26 |
Partial | |
142 | 1962 Feb 19 |
Penumbral |
147 | 1962 Aug 15 |
Penumbral | |
Last set | 1958 May 3 | Last set | 1958 Oct 27 | |||
Next set | 1963 Jan 9 | Next set | 1962 Jul 17 |
Saros series[]
Lunar Saros series 112, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 15 total lunar eclipses.
Greatest | First | |||
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The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1490 Jun 02, lasting 100 minutes.[2] | Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
859 May 20 | 985 Aug 03 | 1364 Mar 18 | 1436 Apr 30 | |
Last | ||||
Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
1562 Jul 16 | 1616 Aug 27 | 2013 Apr 25 |
2139 Jul 12 |
There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on earth.
1941 Mar 13 | |||||
1959 Mar 24 | 1979 Apr 04 | 1995 Apr 15 | |||
2013 Apr 25 | 2031 May 07 | 2049 May 17 | |||
Half-Saros cycle[]
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 119.
March 18, 1950 | March 28, 1968 |
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See also[]
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes[]
- ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 112
- ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 112
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[]
- 1959 Mar 24 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
Categories:
- 20th-century lunar eclipses
- 1959 in science
- March 1959 events
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