December 1964 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse December 19, 1964
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	134 (24 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on December 19, 1964. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 58 minutes and 54 seconds. The Moon was 17% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 16 minutes in total.^[1] The eclipse afforded astrophysicist J. M. Saari the opportunity to make infrared pyrometric scans of the lunar surface with improved equipment, following up on Richard W. Shorthill's discovery of "hot spots" in the Tycho crater during the March 13, 1960 eclipse. ^[2]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1962 Jul 17	Penumbral	1.33712	114	1963 Jan 09	Penumbral	-1.01282
119	1963 Jul 06	Partial	0.61972	124	1963 Dec 30	Total	-0.28889
129	1964 Jun 25	Total	-0.14611	134	1964 Dec 19	Total	0.38008
139	1965 Jun 14	Partial	-0.90055	144	1965 Dec 08	Penumbral	1.07748

Last set	1962 Aug 15			Last set	1962 Feb 19

Next set	1966 May 04			Next set	1966 Oct 29