November 1975 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on November 18, 1975, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 1975.[1]
Total Lunar Eclipse November 18, 1975 | |
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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 | 135 (21 of 71) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Totality | |
Partial | |
Penumbral | |
Contacts | |
P1 | UTC |
U1 | |
U2 | |
Greatest | |
U3 | |
U4 | |
P4 |
Visibility
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 |
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 142.
November 12, 1966 | November 22, 1984 |
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See also
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes
- Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 135
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
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