bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2 | Total Lunar Eclipse September 5, 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 | 127 (39 of 72) | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Gamma | 0.2422 | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0d0e0 | Magnitude | 1.4239 | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0b0e0 colspan=2 | Duration (hr:mn:sc) | ||
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | Totality | 1:26:40 | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | Partial | 3:30:50 | |
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | Penumbral | 5:26:44 | |
align=center bgcolor=#a0d0e0 colspan=2 | Contacts UTC | ||
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P1 | 8:38:30 | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U1 | 9:36:27 | |
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U2 | 10:38:30 | |
align=center bgcolor=#a0a0e0 | Greatest | 11:21:51 | |
align=center bgcolor=#b0a0e0 | U3 | 12:05:12 | |
align=center bgcolor=#c0a0e0 | U4 | 13:07:15 | |
align=center bgcolor=#d0d0e0 | P4 | 14:05:12 |
This is the 39th member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the August 1942 lunar eclipse. The next event is the September 1978 lunar eclipse.
It was visible over the Pacific Ocean, and seen rising over Asia and Australia, and setting over North and South America.
Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 134 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.
Greatest | First | |||
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The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 102 minutes. | Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
1275 Jul 09 | 1473 Nov 04 | 1798 May 29 | 1834 Jun 21 | |
Last | ||||
Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
1960 Sep 05 | 2068 Nov 09 | 2429 Jun 17 | 2555 Sep 02 |