| Total Lunar Eclipse November 18, 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 | 125 (45 of 72) |
| Gamma | 0.2917 |
| Magnitude | 1.3172 |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | 1:18:24 |
| Partial | 3:29:31 |
| Penumbral | 5:32:22 |
| Contacts | UTC | |
| P1 | 4:02:10 |
| U1 | 5:03:31 |
| U2 | 6:09:04 |
| Greatest | 6:48:16 |
| U3 | 7:27:28 |
| U4 | 8:33:01 |
| P4 | 9:34:22 |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, November 18, 1956. [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 23 total eclipses between June 22, 1880 and August 9, 2120.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing | Type chart | Saros | Date Viewing | Type chart | |
| 120 | 1902 Apr 22  | Total | 121 | 1913 Mar 22  | Total | |
| 122 | 1924 Feb 20  | Total | 123 | 1935 Jan 19  | Total | |
| 124 | 1945 Dec 19  | Total | 125 | 1956 Nov 18 | Total | |
| 126 | 1967 Oct 18  | Total | 127 | 1978 Sep 16  | Total | |
| 128 | 1989 Aug 17  | Total | 129 | 2000 Jul 16  | Total | |
| 130 | 2011 Jun 15  | Total | 131 | 2022 May 16  | Total | |
| 132 | 2033 Apr 14  | Total | 133 | 2044 Mar 13  | Total | |
| 134 | 2055 Feb 11  | Total | 135 | 2066 Jan 11  | Total | |
| 136 | 2076 Dec 10  | Total | 137 | 2087 Nov 10  | Total | |
| 138 | 2098 Oct 10  | 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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 132.
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