March 1959 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse March 24, 1959
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	112 (62 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, March 24, 1959.^[1]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962
Ascending node				Descending node
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

Lunar Saros series 112, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 15 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1490 Jun 02, lasting 100 minutes.^[2]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	859 May 20	985 Aug 03	1364 Mar 18	1436 Apr 30
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1562 Jul 16	1616 Aug 27	2013 Apr 25	2139 Jul 12

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.

1901–2100
1905 Feb 19	1923 Mar 3	1941 Mar 13

1959 Mar 24	1977 Apr 04	1995 Apr 15

2013 Apr 25	2031 May 07	2049 May 17

2067 May 28	2085 Jun 08

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 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 119.

March 18, 1950	March 28, 1968

Notes

^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 112
^ Listing of Eclipses of series 112
^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

1959 Mar 24 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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[1] Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 112

[2] Listing of Eclipses of series 112

[3] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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