March 1979 lunar eclipse
Partial Lunar Eclipse March 13, 1979 | |
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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 | 132 (28 of 71) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | 3:17:40.6 |
Penumbral | 5:50:42.8 |
Contacts | |
P1 | 18:12:39.6 UTC |
U1 | 19:29:13.7 |
Greatest | 21:08:02.3 |
U4 | 22:46:54.4 |
P4 | 00:03:22.4 (Mar 14) |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on March 13, 1979, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1979. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours, 17 minutes and 40.6 seconds, with 85.377% of the Moon in darkness at maximum.
This event followed the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1979.
Visibility[]
Related lunar eclipses[]
Eclipses in 1979[]
- A total solar eclipse on Monday, 26 February 1979.
- A partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 13 March 1979.
- An annular solar eclipse on Wednesday, 22 August 1979.
- A total lunar eclipse on Thursday, 6 September 1979.
Lunar year series[]
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1977–1980 | ||||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
112 | 1977 Apr 04 |
Partial |
-0.91483 | 117 | 1977 Sep 27 |
Penumbral |
1.07682 | |
122 | 1978 Mar 24 |
Total |
-0.21402 | 127 | 1978 Sep 16 |
Total |
0.29510 | |
132 | 1979 Mar 13 |
Partial |
0.52537 | 137 | 1979 Sep 06 |
Total |
-0.43050 | |
142 | 1980 Mar 01 |
Penumbral |
1.22701 | 147 | 1980 Aug 26 |
Penumbral |
-1.16082 | |
Last set | 1976 May 13 | Last set | 1976 Nov 06 | |||||
Next set | 1981 Jan 20 | Next set | 1980 Jul 27 |
Saros series[]
Lunar saros series 132, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 44 umbral lunar eclipses (32 partial lunar eclipses and 12 total lunar eclipses).
Greatest | First | |||
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The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2123 Jun 9, lasting 106 minutes.[1] |
Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
1492 May 12 |
1636 Aug 16 |
2015 Apr 4 |
2069 May 6 | |
Last | ||||
Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
2177 Jul 11 |
2213 Aug 2 |
2429 Dec 11 |
2754 Jun 26 |
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.
1943 Feb 20 | |||||
1961 Mar 2 | 1979 Mar 13 | 1997 Mar 24 | |||
2015 Apr 4 | 2033 Apr 14 | 2051 Apr 26 | |||
2069 May 6 | 2087 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).[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 139.
March 7, 1970 | March 18, 1988 |
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See also[]
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes[]
- ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 132
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[]
- 1979 Mar 13 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- 20th-century lunar eclipses
- 1979 in science
- March 1979 events
- Lunar eclipse stubs