| bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2 | Total Lunar Eclipse March 13, 1960 | ||
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |||
| align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Series | 122 (53 of 75) | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Gamma | -0.1799 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Magnitude | 1.5145 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2 | Duration (hr:mn:sc) | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | Totality | 1:33:59 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | Partial | 3:39:23 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | Penumbral | 5:44:47 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0d0e0 colspan=2 | Contacts UTC | ||
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P1 | 5:35:57 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U1 | 6:38:39 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U2 | 7:41:21 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0 | Greatest | 8:28:21 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U3 | 9:15:21 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U4 | 10:18:03 | |
| align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P4 | 11:20:45 | |
This is the 53rd member of Lunar Saros 122. The next event is the March 1978 lunar eclipse.
This eclipse afforded astrophysicist Richard W. Shorthill the opportunity to make the first infrared pyrometric temperature scans of the lunar surface, and led to his discovery of the first lunar "hot spot" observed from Earth. Shorthill found that the temperature of the floor of the Tycho crater was 216° Kelvin (—57°C), significantly higher than the 160K (—113°C) in the area around the crater.[2]
It was visible from North America, seen rising from Australia, and eastern Asia, and setting from South America, western Europe and Africa.
It was part of Saros series 122.