July 1954 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse July 16, 1954
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	138 (26 of 83)
Gamma	0.7876
Magnitude	0.4054
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	2:20:55
Penumbral	5:01:37
Contacts UTC
P1	21:50:03
U1	23:10:24
Greatest	0:20:51
U4	1:31:18
P4	2:51:39

A partial lunar eclipse took place on July 16, 1954.^[1]

Visibility edit

Related lunar eclipses edit

Lunar year series edit

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1951–1955
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
103	1951 Feb 21	Penumbral	108	1951 Aug 17	Penumbral
113	1952 Feb 11	Partial	118	1952 Aug 5	Partial
123	1953 Jan 29	Total	128	1953 Jul 26	Total
133	1954 Jan 19	Total	138	1954 Jul 16	Partial
143	1955 Jan 8	Penumbral

Last set	1951 Mar 23		Last set	1951 Sep 15

Next set	1955 Nov 29		Next set	1955 Jun 5

Saros series edit

It was part of Saros series 138.

Half-Saros cycle edit

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 145.