December 1964 lunar eclipse
Appearance
Total Lunar Eclipse December 19, 1964 | |
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(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.[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 carter during the March 13, 1960 eclipse. [2]
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
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 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 134
- ^ F. Link, Eclipse Phenomena in Astronomy (Springer, 2012) p119
External links
- 1964 Dec 19 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC