| Type: | total |
| Date: | 6 September 1979 |
| Axis: | 0.4405° |
| Gamma: | -0.43050 |
| Magnitude: | 1.09358 |
| Saros Ser: | 137 |
| Saros No: | 25 of 80 |
| Totality: | 44 minutes, 24.7 seconds |
| Partiality: | 191 minutes, 54.2 seconds |
| Penumbral: | 305 minutes, 15.4 seconds |
| P1: | 08:21:34.5 |
| U1: | 09:18:14.6 |
| U2: | 10:31:59.4 |
| Greatest: | 10:54:11.9 |
| U3: | 11:16:24.1 |
| U4: | 12:30:08.8 |
| P4: | 13:26:49.9 |
| Previous: | March 1979 |
| Next: | March 1980 |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, September 6, 1979, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1979. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 44 minutes and 24.7 seconds. The Moon was 9.358% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 11 minutes and 54.1 seconds in total.[1]
This event followed the annular solar eclipse of August 22, 1979.
It is part of Saros series 137.
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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 144.