September 1913 lunar eclipse

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September 1913 lunar eclipse
Total eclipse
DateSeptember 15, 1913
Gamma -0.2109
Magnitude 1.4304
Saros cycle 126 (39 of 70)
Totality93 minutes and 29 seconds
Partiality230 minutes and 33 seconds
Penumbral373 minutes and 1 second
Contacts (UTC)
P109:41:33
U110:52:47
U212:01:19
Greatest12:48:04
U313:34:48
U414:43:20
P415:54:34
 March 1913
March 1914  

A total lunar eclipse took place on Monday, September 15, 1913. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. [1]

Contents

Visibility

Lunar eclipse from moon-1913Sep15.png Lunar eclipse chart close-1913Sep15.png

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
Lunar eclipse chart close-1509Jun13.png
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
Lunar eclipse chart close-1913Sep15.png
127 1942 Aug 26
Lunar eclipse chart close-1942Aug26.png
128 1971 Aug 6
Lunar eclipse chart close-1971Aug06.png
129 2000 Jul 16
Lunar eclipse chart close-2000jul16.png
130 2029 Jun 26
Lunar eclipse chart close-29jun26.png
131 2058 Jun 6
Lunar eclipse chart close-2058Jun06.png
132 2087 May 17
Lunar eclipse chart close-2087May17.png
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
Lunar eclipse chart close-2492Aug08.png

Saros series

It is part of saros series 126 .

Lunar saros series 126, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 70 lunar eclipse events including 14 total lunar eclipses. Solar Saros 133 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

First penumbral lunar eclipse: 18 July 1228

First partial lunar eclipse: 24 March 1625

First total lunar eclipse: 19 June 1769

First central lunar eclipse: 11 July 1805

Greatest eclipse of the lunar saros 126: 13 August 1859, lasting 106 minutes.

Last central lunar eclipse: 26 September 1931

Last total lunar eclipse: 9 November 2003

Last partial lunar eclipse: 5 June 2346

Last penumbral lunar eclipse: 19 August 2472

1901-2100

15 September 1913

26 September 1931

7 October 1949

18 October 1967

28 October 1985

9 November 2003

19 November 2021

30 November 2039

11 December 2057

22 December 2075

1 January 2094

Half-Saros cycle

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 133.

September 9, 1904 September 21, 1922
SE1904Sep09T.png SE1922Sep21T.png

See also

Notes

  1. Saros series 126
  2. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


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