May_1958_lunar_eclipse

May 1958 lunar eclipse

May 1958 lunar eclipse

Partial lunar eclipse May 3, 1958

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]

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Visibility

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Half-Saros cycle

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.

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See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Partial Lunar Eclipse on May 3, 1958 – Where and When to See". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. [2]
    "Saros Series of Lunar Eclipses". moonblink.info. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  3. [3]
    Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


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