March 1960 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on March 13, 1960. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.[1]

Total Lunar Eclipse
March 13, 1960
(No photo)

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series122 (53 of 75)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

This is the 53rd member of Lunar Saros 122. The next event is the March 1978 lunar eclipse.

This eclipse afforded astrophysicist Richard W. Shorthill the opportunity to make the first infrared pyrometric temperature scans of the lunar surface, and led to his discovery of the first lunar "hot spot" observed from Earth. Shorthill found that the temperature of the floor of the Tycho crater was 216° Kelvin (—57° C), significantly higher than the 160°K (—113° C) in the area around the crater.[2]

Visibility

It was visible from North America, seen rising from Australia, and eastern Asia, and setting from South America, western Europe and Africa.

Lunar year series
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing		 Type
Chart		 Saros Date
Viewing		 Type
Chart
102 1958 Apr 4
 Penumbral
112 1959 Mar 24
 Partial
 117 1959 Sep 17
 Penumbral
122 1960 Mar 13
 Total
 127 1960 Sep 5
 Total
132 1961 Mar 2
 Partial
 137 1961 Aug 26
 Partial
142 1962 Feb 19
 Penumbral
 147 1962 Aug 15
 Penumbral
Last set 1958 May 3 Last set 1958 Oct 27
Next set 1963 Jan 9 Next set 1962 Jul 17

See also

Notes
  1. Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 122
  2. F. Link, Eclipse Phenomena in Astronomy (Springer, 2012) p119


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