September 1979 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse September 6, 1979
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	137 (24 of 81)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	0:44:24.7
Partial	3:11:54.1
Penumbral	5:05:15.4
Contacts
P1	08:21:34.5 UTC
U1	09:18:14.6
U2	10:31:59.4
Greatest	10:54:11.9
U3	11:16:24.1
U4	12:30:08.8
P4	13:26:49.9

A total lunar eclipse took place on September 6, 1979, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1979. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 44 minutes and 24.7 seconds. The Moon was 9.358% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 11 minutes and 54.1 seconds in total.^[1]

This event followed the annular solar eclipse of August 22, 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
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

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 144.