| Type: | partial |
| Date: | 4 June 1974 |
| Axis: | 0.5048° |
| Gamma: | -0.54887 |
| Magnitude: | 0.82695 |
| Saros Ser: | 120 |
| Saros No: | 56 of 74 |
| Partiality: | 193 minutes, 37.1 seconds |
| Penumbral: | 341 minutes, 9.5 seconds |
| P1: | 19:25:25.4 (4 Jun) |
| U1: | 20:39:08.1 (4 Jun) |
| Greatest: | 22:15:58.8 (4 Jun) |
| U4: | 23:52:45.2 (4 Jun) |
| P4: | 01:06:34.9 (5 Jun) |
| Previous: | December 1973 |
| Next: | November 1974 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, June 4, 1974, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1974. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours and 14 minutes, with 82.695% of the Moon in darkness at maximum. Occurring 4.5 days before apogee (Apogee on Sunday, June 9, 1974), the Moon's apparent diameter was 4.4% smaller than average.[1]
It was part of Saros series 120.
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 127.