December 1964 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse
December 19, 1964
(No photo)

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 134 (24 of 73)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1 UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, December 19, 1964. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 58 minutes and 54 seconds. The Moon was 17% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 16 minutes in total.[1] The eclipse afforded astrophysicist J. M. Saari the opportunity to make infrared pyrometric scans of the lunar surface with improved equipment, following up on Richard W. Shorthill's discovery of "hot spots" in the Tycho crater during the March 13, 1960 eclipse. [2]

Visibility

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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

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 134
  2. ^ F. Link, Eclipse Phenomena in Astronomy (Springer, 2012) p119
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