| Partial Lunar Eclipse May 3, 1958 | |
|---|---|
| (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
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Related lunar eclipses
editLunar year series
edit| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date viewing |
Type chart |
Saros | Date viewing |
Type chart | |
| 110 | 1955 Jun 5
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Penumbral
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115 | 1955 Nov 29
|
Partial
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| 120 | 1956 May 24
|
Partial
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125 | 1956 Nov 18
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Total
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| 130 | 1957 May 13
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Total
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135 | 1957 Nov 7
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Total
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| 140 | 1958 May 3
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Partial
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145 | 1958 Oct 27
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Penumbral
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| Last set | 1954 Jul 16 | Last set | 1955 Jan 8 | |||
| Next set | 1958 Apr 4 | Next set | 1959 Sep 17 | |||
Half-Saros cycle
editA 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
editNotes
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
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