August 1942 lunar eclipse

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August 1942 lunar eclipse
Total eclipse
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The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left
DateAugust 26, 1942
Gamma 0.1818
Magnitude 1.5344
Saros cycle 127 (38 of 72)
Totality93 minutes, 23 seconds
Partiality214 minutes, 11 seconds
Penumbral329 minutes, 32 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P11:03:16
U12:00:53
U23:01:17
Greatest3:48:00
U34:34:40
U45:35:04
P46:32:48

A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Wednesday, August 26, 1942, [1] with an umbral magnitude of 1.5344. It was a central lunar eclipse, in which part of the Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon's shadow is smaller. Occurring about 2.7 days after perigee (on August 23, 1942, at 9:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. [2]

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Visibility

The eclipse was completely visible over eastern North America, South America, west Africa, and Antarctica, seen rising over western North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean and setting over Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. [3]

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Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse. [4]

August 26, 1942 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Penumbral Magnitude2.51418
Umbral Magnitude1.53440
Gamma0.18180
Sun Right Ascension10h17m03.7s
Sun Declination+10°39'49.6"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'49.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension22h16m52.1s
Moon Declination-10°29'26.0"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'09.3"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°59'17.3"
ΔT25.7 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of August–September 1942
August 12
Ascending node (new moon)
August 26
Descending node (full moon)
September 10
Ascending node (new moon)
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Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 115
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 127
Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 153

Eclipses in 1942

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Lunar Saros 127

Inex

Triad

Lunar eclipses of 1940–1944

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. [5]

The penumbral lunar eclipses on April 22, 1940 and October 16, 1940 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipses on July 6, 1944 and December 29, 1944 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1940 to 1944
Ascending node Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma SarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
102 1940 Mar 23
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Penumbral
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−1.5034107
112 1941 Mar 13
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Partial
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−0.8437117 1941 Sep 05
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Partial
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0.9747
122 1942 Mar 03
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Total
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−0.1545127 1942 Aug 26
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Total
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0.1818
132 1943 Feb 20
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Partial
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0.5752137 1943 Aug 15
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Partial
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−0.5534
142 1944 Feb 09
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Penumbral
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1.2698147 1944 Aug 04
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Penumbral
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−1.2843

Saros 127

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 127, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on July 9, 1275. It contains partial eclipses from November 4, 1473 through May 18, 1780; total eclipses from May 29, 1798 through November 9, 2068; and a second set of partial eclipses from November 20, 2086 through June 17, 2429. The series ends at member 72 as a penumbral eclipse on September 2, 2555.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 35 at 101 minutes, 46 seconds on July 23, 1888. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [6]

GreatestFirst
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 101 minutes, 46 seconds. [7] PenumbralPartialTotalCentral
1275 Jul 09
1473 Nov 04
1798 May 29
1834 Jun 21
Last
CentralTotalPartialPenumbral
1960 Sep 05
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2068 Nov 09
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2429 Jun 17
2555 Sep 02

Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

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 40.

All events in this series shown (from 1000 to 2500) are central total lunar eclipses.

Inex series from 1000–2500 AD
Descending nodeAscending nodeDescending nodeAscending node
Saros DateSarosDateSarosDateSarosDate
951016 May 24961045 May 3971074 Apr 14981103 Mar 25
991132 Mar 31001161 Feb 121011190 Jan 231021219 Jan 2
1031247 Dec 131041276 Nov 231051305 Nov 21061334 Oct 13
1071363 Sep 231081392 Sep 21091421 Aug 131101450 Jul 24
1111479 Jul 4112 1508 Jun 13
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1131537 May 241141566 May 4
1151595 Apr 241161624 Apr 31171653 Mar 141181682 Feb 21
1191711 Feb 31201740 Jan 131211768 Dec 231221797 Dec 4
1231826 Nov 141241855 Oct 251251884 Oct 4126 1913 Sep 15
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127 1942 Aug 26
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128 1971 Aug 6
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129 2000 Jul 16
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130 2029 Jun 26
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131 2058 Jun 6
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132 2087 May 17
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1332116 Apr 271342145 Apr 7
1352174 Mar 181362203 Feb 261372232 Feb 71382261 Jan 17
1392289 Dec 271402318 Dec 91412347 Nov 191422376 Oct 28
1432405 Oct 81442434 Sep 181452463 Aug 29146 2492 Aug 8
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Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). [8] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 134.

August 21, 1933 September 1, 1951
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See also


  1. "August 25–26, 1942 Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)". timeanddate. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  2. "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  3. "Total Lunar Eclipse of 1942 Aug 26" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  4. "Total Lunar Eclipse of 1942 Aug 26". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  5. van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses of Saros 127". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  7. Listing of Eclipses of series 127
  8. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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