Partial Lunar Eclipse June 4, 1974 | |
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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 | 120 (56 of 84) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
Greatest | |
U4 | |
P4 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 4, 1974, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1974.[1]
Visibility
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 127.
May 30, 1965 | June 11, 1983 |
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Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1973–1976 | ||||||||
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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 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 120
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links
- 1974 Jun 04 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC