| Partial Lunar Eclipse May 24, 1956 | |
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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 | 120 (55 of 84) |
| Gamma | -0.4726 |
| Magnitude | 0.9647 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | 3:24:30 |
| Penumbral | 5:48:30 |
| Contacts (UTC) | |
| P1 | 12:37:37 |
| U1 | 13:49:37 |
| Greatest | 15:31:52 |
| U4 | 17:14:07 |
| P4 | 18:26:07 |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, May 24, 1956. It was the first eclipse of the last partial set in Saros series 120. [1]
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | |
| 110 | 1955 Jun 5  | Penumbral | 115 | 1955 Nov 29  | Partial | |
| 120 | 1956 May 24  | Partial | 125 | 1956 Nov 18  | Total | |
| 130 | 1957 May 13  | Total | 135 | 1957 Nov 7  | Total | |
| 140 | 1958 May 3  | Partial | 145 | 1958 Oct 27  | Penumbral | |
| Last set | 1954 Jul 16 | Last set | 1955 Jan 8 | |||
| Next set | 1958 Apr 4 | Next set | 1959 Sep 17 | |||
The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.
This series produces 20 total eclipses between April 24, 1967 and August 11, 2185, only being partial on November 19, 2021.
| Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2087) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Date Viewing | Type chart | Saros | Date Viewing | Type chart | |
| 115 | 1901 Oct 27  | Partial | 116 | 1912 Sep 26  | Partial | |
| 117 | 1923 Aug 26  | Partial | 118 | 1934 Jul 26  | Partial | |
| 119 | 1945 Jun 25  | Partial | 120 | 1956 May 24 | Partial | |
| 121 | 1967 Apr 24  | Total | 122 | 1978 Mar 24  | Total | |
| 123 | 1989 Feb 20  | Total | 124 | 2000 Jan 21  | Total | |
| 125 | 2010 Dec 21  | Total | 126 | 2021 Nov 19  | Partial | |
| 127 | 2032 Oct 18  | Total | 128 | 2043 Sep 19  | Total | |
| 129 | 2054 Aug 18  | Total | 130 | 2065 Jul 17  | Total | |
| 131 | 2076 Jun 17  | Total | 132 | 2087 May 17  | Total | |
| 133 | 2098 Apr 15  | Total | ||||
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 127.
| May 20, 1947 | May 30, 1965 |
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