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July 1963 lunar eclipse

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Partial Lunar Eclipse
July 6, 1963
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The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 119 (59 of 83)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial 5:27:18.2
Penumbral 2:59:55.6
Contacts (UTC)
P1 19:18:43.6 (6 July 1963)
U1 20:32:29.1 (6 July 1963)
Greatest 22:02:23.8 (6 July 1963)
U4 23:32:24.7 (6 July 1963)
P4 00:46:01.8 (7 July 1963)

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, July 6, 1963 with an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.70602. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours exactly, with 71% of the Moon in darkness at maximum. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon but the three celestial bodies do not form a straight line in space. When that happens, a small part of the Moon's surface is covered by the darkest, central part of the Earth's shadow, called the umbra. The rest of the Moon is covered by the outer part of the Earth's shadow called the penumbra. It was the second of three lunar eclipses in 1963, the first was a penumbral lunar eclipse on January 9, 1963 and the third and last was on December 30, 1963.[1]

Visibility

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The partial eclipse was visible in Southeastern Atlantic, Africa, Europe and western Asia, seen rising over South America, and setting over Asia and Australia.

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Lunar year series

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Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
109 1962 Jul 17
Penumbral
1.33712 114 1963 Jan 09
Penumbral
-1.01282
119 1963 Jul 06
Partial
0.61972 124 1963 Dec 30
Total
-0.28889
129 1964 Jun 25
Total
-0.14611 134 1964 Dec 19
Total
0.38008
139 1965 Jun 14
Partial
-0.90055 144 1965 Dec 08
Penumbral
1.07748
Last set 1962 Aug 15 Last set 1962 Feb 19
Next set 1966 May 04 Next set 1966 Oct 29

Half-Saros cycle

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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 126.

June 30, 1954 July 10, 1972

Tritos series

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Tzolkinex

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 119
  2. ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
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