March 1961 lunar eclipse
Partial Lunar Eclipse March 2, 1961 | |
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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 (27 of 71) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
Greatest | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, March 2, 1961, the first of two partial lunar eclipses in 1961.
Visibility[edit]
Related lunar eclipses[edit]
Lunar year series[edit]
Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
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Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | |
102 | 1958 Apr 04 | Penumbral | -1.53805 | |||||
112 | 1959 Mar 24 | Partial | -0.87571 | 117 | 1959 Sep 17 | Penumbral | 1.02963 | |
122 | 1960 Mar 13 | Total | -0.17990 | 127 | 1960 Sep 05 | Total | 0.24219 | |
132 | 1961 Mar 02 | Partial | 0.55406 | 137 | 1961 Aug 26 | Partial | -0.48947 | |
142 | 1962 Feb 19 | Penumbral | 1.25115 | 147 | 1962 Aug 15 | Penumbral | -1.22104 | |
Last set | 1958 May 03 | Last set | 1958 Oct 27 | |||||
Next set | 1963 Jan 09 | Next set | 1962 Jul 17 |
Saros series[edit]
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.
1907 Jan 29 | 1925 Feb 8 | 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[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 139.
February 25, 1952 | March 7, 1970 |
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See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 132
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[edit]
- 1961 Mar 02 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC