March 1960 lunar eclipse

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Total Lunar Eclipse
March 13, 1960
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Lunar eclipse chart close-1960Mar13.png
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 122 (53 of 75)
Gamma -0.1799
Magnitude 1.5145
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality1:33:59
Partial3:39:23
Penumbral5:44:47
Contacts UTC
P15:35:57
U16:38:39
U27:41:21
Greatest8:28:21
U39:15:21
U410:18:03
P411:20:45

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

Contents

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 160K (—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 eclipse from moon-1960Mar13.png

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962
Ascending node Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
SarosDate
Viewing
Type
Chart
102 1958 Apr 4
Lunar eclipse from moon-1958Apr04.png
Penumbral
Lunar eclipse chart close-1958Apr04.png
112 1959 Mar 24
Lunar eclipse from moon-1959Mar24.png
Partial
Lunar eclipse chart close-1959Mar24.png
117 1959 Sep 17
Lunar eclipse from moon-1959Sep17.png
Penumbral
Lunar eclipse chart close-1959Sep17.png
122 1960 Mar 13
Lunar eclipse from moon-1960Mar13.png
Total
Lunar eclipse chart close-1960Mar13.png
127 1960 Sep 5
Lunar eclipse from moon-1960Sep05.png
Total
Lunar eclipse chart close-1960Sep05.png
132 1961 Mar 2
Lunar eclipse from moon-1961Mar02.png
Partial
Lunar eclipse chart close-1961Mar02.png
137 1961 Aug 26
Lunar eclipse from moon-1961Aug26.png
Partial
Lunar eclipse chart close-1961Aug26.png
142 1962 Feb 19
Lunar eclipse from moon-1962Feb19.png
Penumbral
Lunar eclipse chart close-1962Feb19.png
147 1962 Aug 15
Lunar eclipse from moon-1962Aug15.png
Penumbral
Lunar eclipse chart close-1962Aug15.png
Last set 1958 May 3 Last set 1958 Oct 27
Next set 1963 Jan 9 Next set 1962 Jul 17

Saros series

It was part of Saros series 122.

Tritos series

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See also

Notes

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


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