May 1956 lunar eclipse
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| Partial Lunar Eclipse May 24, 1956 | |
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
| File:Lunar eclipse chart close-1956May24.png 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]
Visibility
File:Lunar eclipse from moon-1956May24.png
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
Tritos series
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.
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 127.
| May 20, 1947 | May 30, 1965 |
|---|---|
| File:SE1947May20T.png | File:SE1965May30T.png |
Tzolkinex
- Preceded: Lunar eclipse of April 13, 1949
- Followed: Lunar eclipse of July 6, 1963
See also
Notes
- ↑ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 120
- ↑ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links
- 1956 May 24 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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