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Total Lunar Eclipse
November 18, 1975
(No photo)

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 135 (21 of 71)
Gamma -0.4134
Magnitude 1.0642
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality 40:12
Partial 3:29:00
Penumbral 5:52:07
Contacts UTC
P1 19:28:09
U1 20:39:42
U2 22:04:06
Greatest 22:24:12
U3 22:44:18
U4 0:08:42
P4 1:20:15

A total lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, November 18, 1975, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 1975.[1]

Visibility

Eclipses in 1975

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

Tritos series

Tzolkinex

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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 142.

November 12, 1966 November 22, 1984

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 135
  2. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros