November 1957 lunar eclipse
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Total Lunar Eclipse November 7, 1957 | |
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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 | 135 (20 of 71) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Totality | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
U2 | |
Greatest | |
U3 | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, November 7, 1957. The Moon barely edged into total eclipse for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. With the Moon just 3.5% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, the Moon may have been quite bright, but even so, this should have been worth seeing. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 27 minutes in total.[1]
Visibility[edit]
Related lunar eclipses[edit]
Lunar year series[edit]
Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | |
110 | 1955 Jun 5 | Penumbral | 115 | 1955 Nov 29 | Partial | |
120 | 1956 May 24 | Partial | 125 | 1956 Nov 18 | Total | |
130 | 1957 May 13 | Total | 135 | 1957 Nov 7 | Total | |
140 | 1958 May 3 | Partial | 145 | 1958 Oct 27 | Penumbral | |
Last set | 1954 Jul 16 | Last set | 1955 Jan 8 | |||
Next set | 1958 Apr 4 | Next set | 1959 Sep 17 |
Half-Saros cycle[edit]
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.
November 1, 1948 | November 12, 1966 |
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 135
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[edit]
- 1957 Nov 07 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC