July 1963 lunar eclipse explained
| bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2 | Partial Lunar Eclipse
July 6, 1963 |
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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. |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Series | 119 (59 of 83) |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2 | Duration (hr:mn:sc) |
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| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | Partial | 5:27:18.2 |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | Penumbral | 2:59:55.6 |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0d0e0 colspan=2 | Contacts (UTC) |
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| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P1 | 19:18:43.6 (6 July 1963) |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U1 | 20:32:29.1 (6 July 1963) |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0 | Greatest | 22:02:23.8 (6 July 1963) |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U4 | 23:32:24.7 (6 July 1963) |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | 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
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
Half-Saros cycle
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.
Tritos series
Tzolkinex
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/gen_stats.cgi?mode=query&page=full&qtype=type&body=L&saros=119 Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 119
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
