December 1973 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse December 10, 1973
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	115 (55 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, December 10, 1973, the last of four lunar eclipses in 1973, the first was a penumbral lunar eclipse on January 18, the second was a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 15, and the third was a penumbral lunar eclipse on July 15.^[1]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses in 1973

An annular solar eclipse on Thursday, 4 January 1973.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on Thursday, 18 January 1973.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday, 15 June 1973.
A total solar eclipse on Saturday, 30 June 1973.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on Sunday, 15 July 1973.
A partial lunar eclipse on Monday, 10 December 1973.
An annular solar eclipse on Monday, 24 December 1973.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1973–1976
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1973 Jun 15	Penumbral	−1.32166	115	1973 Dec 10	Partial	0.96441
120	1974 Jun 04	Partial	−0.54887	125	1974 Nov 29	Total	0.30540
130	1975 May 25	Total	0.23674	135	1975 Nov 18	Total	−0.41343
140	1976 May 13	Partial	0.95860	145	1976 Nov 06	Penumbral	−1.12760

Last set	1973 Jul 15			Last set	1973 Jan 18

Next set	1977 Apr 04			Next set	1977 Sep 27

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 122.