July 1963 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse July 6, 1963
(No photo)
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	119 (59 of 83)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	5:27:18.2
Penumbral	2:59:55.6
Contacts (UTC)
P1	19:18:43.6 (6 July 1963)
U1	20:32:29.1 (6 July 1963)
Greatest	22:02:23.8 (6 July 1963)
U4	23:32:24.7 (6 July 1963)
P4	00:46:01.8 (7 July 1963)

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, July 6, 1963 with an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.70602. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours exactly, with 71% of the Moon in darkness at maximum. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon but the three celestial bodies do not form a straight line in space. When that happens, a small part of the Moon's surface is covered by the darkest, central part of the Earth's shadow, called the umbra. The rest of the Moon is covered by the outer part of the Earth's shadow called the penumbra. It was the second of three lunar eclipses in 1963, the first was a penumbral lunar eclipse on January 9, 1963 and the third and last was on December 30, 1963.^[1]

Visibility[edit]

The partial eclipse was visible in Southeastern Atlantic, Africa, Europe and western Asia, seen rising over South America, and setting over Asia and Australia.

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
109	1962 Jul 17	Penumbral	114	1963 Jan 9	Penumbral
119	1963 Jul 6	Partial	124	1963 Dec 30	Total
129	1964 Jun 25	Total	134	1964 Dec 19	Total
139	1965 Jun 14	Partial	144	1965 Dec 8	Penumbral

Last set	1962 Aug 15		Last set	1962 Feb 19

Next set	1966 May 4		Next set	1966 Oct 29

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 126.