July 1972 lunar eclipse
Appearance
Partial Lunar Eclipse July 26, 1972 | |
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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 | 138 (27 of 83) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
Greatest | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on July 26, 1972.[1]
Visibility
Relation to other lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1969–1973 | ||||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
108 | 1969 Aug 27 |
Penumbral |
−1.54066 | 113 | 1970 Feb 21 |
Partial |
0.96198 | |
118 | 1970 Aug 17 |
Partial |
−0.80534 | 123 | 1971 Feb 10 |
Total |
0.27413 | |
128 | 1971 Aug 06 |
Total |
−0.07944 | 133 | 1972 Jan 30 |
Total |
−0.42729 | |
138 | 1972 Jul 26 |
Partial |
0.71167 | 143 | 1973 Jan 18 |
Penumbral |
−1.08446 | |
148 | 1973 Jul 15 |
Penumbral |
1.51782 | |||||
Last set | 1969 Sep 25 | Last set | 1969 Apr 02 | |||||
Next set | 1973 Jun 15 | Next set | 1973 Dec 10 |
See also
Notes
External links
- 1972 Jul 26 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC