June 1955 lunar eclipse

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June 1955 lunar eclipse
Penumbral eclipse
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The Moon's hourly motion shown right to left
DateJune 5, 1955
Gamma −1.2384
Magnitude −0.4498
Saros cycle 110 (68 of 72)
Penumbral232 minutes, 18 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P112:26:43
Greatest14:22:52
P416:19:01

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 5, 1955, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.4498. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's penumbra. 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. Occurring only about 11 hours after apogee (on June 5, 1955, at 3:45 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. [2]

Contents

Visibility

The eclipse was completely visible over east, Australia, and Antarctica, seen rising over the western half of Asia and east Africa and setting over the eastern Pacific Ocean. [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]

June 5, 1955 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Penumbral Magnitude0.62181
Umbral Magnitude−0.44978
Gamma−1.23842
Sun Right Ascension04h51m12.9s
Sun Declination+22°30'11.9"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'45.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension16h51m07.1s
Moon Declination-23°37'02.2"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'42.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°53'59.1"
ΔT31.2 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.

Eclipse season of June 1955
June 5
Ascending node (full moon)
June 20
Descending node (new moon)
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Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 110
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 136

Eclipses in 1955

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Lunar Saros 110

Inex

Triad

Lunar eclipses of 1955–1958

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 eclipse on January 8, 1955 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipse on April 4, 1958 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1955 to 1958
Ascending node Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma SarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
110 1955 Jun 05
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Penumbral
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−1.2384115 1955 Nov 29
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Partial
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0.9551
120 1956 May 24
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Partial
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−0.4726125 1956 Nov 18
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Total
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0.2917
130 1957 May 13
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Total
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0.3046135 1957 Nov 07
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Total
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−0.4332
140 1958 May 03
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Partial
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1.0188145 1958 Oct 27
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Penumbral
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−1.1571

Saros 110

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 110, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on May 28, 747 AD. It contains partial eclipses from August 23, 891 AD through April 18, 1288; total eclipses from April 29, 1306 through September 5, 1522; and a second set of partial eclipses from September 16, 1540 through April 22, 1883. The series ends at member 72 as a penumbral eclipse on July 18, 2027.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 38 at 103 minutes, 8 seconds on July 3, 1414. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit. [6]

GreatestFirst
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1414 Jul 03, lasting 103 minutes, 8 seconds. [7] PenumbralPartialTotalCentral
747 May 28
891 Aug 23
1306 Apr 29
1360 May 31
Last
CentralTotalPartialPenumbral
1468 Aug 04
1522 Sep 05
1883 Apr 22
2027 Jul 18
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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.

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1835 and 2200
1835 May 12
(Saros 99)
1846 Apr 11
(Saros 100)
1868 Feb 08
(Saros 102)
1879 Jan 08
(Saros 103)
1933 Aug 05
(Saros 108)
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1944 Jul 06
(Saros 109)
1955 Jun 05
(Saros 110)
1966 May 04
(Saros 111)
1977 Apr 04
(Saros 112)
1988 Mar 03
(Saros 113)
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1999 Jan 31
(Saros 114)
2009 Dec 31
(Saros 115)
2020 Nov 30
(Saros 116)
2031 Oct 30
(Saros 117)
2042 Sep 29
(Saros 118)
Lunar eclipse chart close-1999Jan31.png Lunar eclipse from moon-1999Jan31.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2009Dec31.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2009Dec31.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2020Nov30.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2020Nov30.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2031Oct30.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2031Oct30.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2042Sep29.png Lunar eclipse from moon-2042Sep29.png
2053 Aug 29
(Saros 119)
2064 Jul 28
(Saros 120)
2075 Jun 28
(Saros 121)
2086 May 28
(Saros 122)
2097 Apr 26
(Saros 123)
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2108 Mar 27
(Saros 124)
2119 Feb 25
(Saros 125)
2130 Jan 24
(Saros 126)
2140 Dec 23
(Saros 127)
2151 Nov 24
(Saros 128)
2162 Oct 23
(Saros 129)
2173 Sep 21
(Saros 130)
2184 Aug 21
(Saros 131)
2195 Jul 22
(Saros 132)

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 partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117.

May 30, 1946 June 10, 1964
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See also

Notes

  1. "June 5–6, 1955 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  2. "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  3. "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 1955 Jun 05" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  4. "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 1955 Jun 05". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 23 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 110". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  7. Listing of Eclipses of series 110
  8. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


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