November 1975 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse November 18, 1975
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	135 (21 of 71)
Gamma	-0.4134
Magnitude	1.0642
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	40:12
Partial	3:29:00
Penumbral	5:52:07
Contacts UTC
P1	19:28:09
U1	20:39:42
U2	22:04:06
Greatest	22:24:12
U3	22:44:18
U4	0:08:42
P4	1:20:15

A total lunar eclipse took place on November 18, 1975, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 1975.^[1]

Visibility[]

Related lunar eclipses[]

Eclipses in 1975[]

A partial solar eclipse on Sunday, 11 May 1975.
A total lunar eclipse on Sunday, 25 May 1975.
A partial solar eclipse on Monday, 3 November 1975.
A total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 18 November 1975.

Lunar year series[]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1973–1976
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1973 Jun 15	Penumbral	-1.32166	115	1973 Dec 10	Partial	0.96441
120	1974 Jun 04	Partial	-0.54887	125	1974 Nov 29	Total	0.30540
130	1975 May 25	Total	0.23674	135	1975 Nov 18	Total	-0.41343
140	1976 May 13	Partial	0.95860	145	1976 Nov 06	Penumbral	-1.12760

Last set	1973 Jul 15			Last set	1973 Jan 18

Next set	1977 Apr 04			Next set	1977 Sep 27

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 142.