July 1953 lunar eclipse

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Total Lunar Eclipse
July 26, 1953
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 128 (37 of 71)
Gamma -0.0071
Magnitude 1.8628
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:40:42
Partial3:35:42
Penumbral5:26:30
Contacts (UTC)
P19:37:55
U110:33:19
U211:30:49
Greatest12:21:10
U313:11:31
U414:09:01
P415:04:25

A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, July 26, 1953.

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The Moon passed through the very center of the Earth's shadow. While the visual effect of a total lunar eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse. This was a great spectacle for everyone who saw it from Australia as well as parts of Asia, Korea, New Zealand and Hawaii. The partial lunar eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 35 minutes 42 seconds in total. With an umbral lunar eclipse magnitude of 1.8628, this was the largest lunar eclipse of the 20th century. Gamma had a value of only -0.0071. Due to the Moon's relatively large size, totality lasted 100 minutes 42 seconds unlike July 16, 2000 which lasted 106 minutes 25 seconds, the longest since August 13, 1859 (which was only 3 seconds longer). This was the darkest total lunar eclipse in the 20th century.

Visibility

It can all be seen from Australia, is seen rising in East Asia and is seen in North and South America. It is also visible from Korea as well as New Zealand and Hawaii, including Vietnam

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Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1951–1955
Descending node Ascending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
SarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
103 1951 Feb 21
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Penumbral
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108 1951 Aug 17
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Penumbral
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113 1952 Feb 11
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Partial
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118 1952 Aug 5
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Partial
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123 1953 Jan 29
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Total
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128 1953 Jul 26
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Total
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133 1954 Jan 19
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Total
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138 1954 Jul 16
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Partial
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143 1955 Jan 8
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Penumbral
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Last set 1951 Mar 23 Last set 1951 Sep 15
Next set 1955 Nov 29 Next set 1955 Jun 5

Saros series

Lunar saros series 128, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 57 umbral eclipses (42 partial lunar eclipses and 15 total lunar eclipses). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

GreatestFirst
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The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1953 Jul 26, lasting 108 minutes. [1]
PenumbralPartialTotalCentral
1304 Jun 181430 Sep 21845 May 21 1899 Jun 23
Last
CentralTotalPartialPenumbral
2007 Aug 28 2097 May 21 2440 May 172566 Aug 2
1901–2100
1917 Jul 4 1935 Jul 16 1953 Jul 26
Lunar eclipse chart close-1917Jul04.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1917Jul04.png Lunar eclipse chart close-1935Jul16.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1935Jul16.png Lunar eclipse chart close-1953Jul26.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1953Jul26.png
1971 Aug 6 1989 Aug 17 2007 Aug 28
Lunar eclipse chart close-1971Aug06.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1971Aug06.png Lunar eclipse chart close-1989Aug17.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1989Aug17.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2007aug28.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2007Aug28.png
2025 Sep 7 2043 Sep 19 2061 Sep 29
Lunar eclipse chart close-2025Sep07.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2025Sep07.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2043Sep19.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2043Sep19.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2061Sep29.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2061Sep29.png
2079 Oct 10 2097 Oct 21
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Lunar Saros 128 contains 15 total lunar eclipses between 1845 and 2097 (in years 1845, 1863, 1881, 1899, 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, 2025, 2043, 2061, 2079 and 2097). Solar Saros 135 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Inex series

The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.

This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly. It is a part of Lunar Inex series 39.

All events in this series listed below and more are total lunar eclipses.

Inex series from 1000 to 2500 AD
Ascending nodeDescending nodeAscending nodeDescending node
Saros DateSarosDateSarosDateSarosDate
961027 Apr 23971056 Apr 2981085 Mar 14991114 Feb 21
1001143 Feb 11011172 Jan 131021200 Dec 221031229 Dec 2
1041258 Nov 121051287 Oct 221061316 Oct 21071345 Sep 12
1081374 Aug 221091403 Aug 21101432 Jul 131111461 Jun 22
1121490 Jun 21131519 May 141141548 Apr 221151577 Apr 2
1161606 Mar 241171635 Mar 31181664 Feb 111191693 Jan 22
1201722 Jan 21211750 Dec 131221779 Nov 231231808 Nov 3
1241837 Oct 131251866 Sep 241261895 Sep 4127 1924 Aug 14
128 1953 Jul 26
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129 1982 Jul 6
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130 2011 Jun 15
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131 2040 May 26
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132 2069 May 6
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133 2098 Apr 15
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1342127 Mar 281352156 Mar 7
1362185 Feb 141372214 Jan 271382243 Jan 71392271 Dec 17
1402300 Nov 271412329 Nov 71422358 Oct 181432387 Sep 28
1442416 Sep 71452445 Aug 171462474 Jul 29

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135.

July 20, 1944 July 31, 1962
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See also

Notes

  1. Listing of Eclipses of cycle 128
  2. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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