May 1958 lunar eclipse
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Partial Lunar Eclipse May 3, 1958 | |
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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 | 140 (22 of 80) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | 0:21[1] |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | 10:11:49 UTC[1] |
U1 | 12:02:26 [1] |
Greatest | 12:12:55 [1] |
U4 | 12:23:22 [1] |
P4 | 14:14:03 [1] |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, May 3, 1958. This was the first partial lunar eclipse of Saros cycle 140. While technically a partial eclipse, the Moon barely clipped the Earth's umbral shadow, which may have been very difficult to observe in practice; though a shading across the moon from the Earth's penumbral shadow should have been visible at maximum eclipse. The partial eclipse lasted for 21 minutes exactly. 0.919% of the Moon was in umbral shadow on Saturday, 3 May 1958.[2]
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).[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 147.
April 28, 1949 | May 9, 1967 |
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See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Partial Lunar Eclipse on May 3, 1958 – Where and When to See". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ^ "Saros Series of Lunar Eclipses". moonblink.info. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links[edit]
- 1958 May 03 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC