March 1960 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse
March 13, 1960
(No photo)

The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series 122 (53 of 75)
Gamma -0.1799
Magnitude 1.5145
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality 1:33:59
Partial 3:39:23
Penumbral 5:44:47
Contacts UTC
P1 5:35:57
U1 6:38:39
U2 7:41:21
Greatest 8:28:21
U3 9:15:21
U4 10:18:03
P4 11:20:45

A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, March 13, 1960. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.[1]

This is the 53rd member of Lunar Saros 122. The next event is the March 1978 lunar eclipse.

This eclipse afforded astrophysicist Richard W. Shorthill the opportunity to make the first infrared pyrometric temperature scans of the lunar surface, and led to his discovery of the first lunar "hot spot" observed from Earth. Shorthill found that the temperature of the floor of the Tycho crater was 216° Kelvin (—57°C), significantly higher than the 160K (—113°C) in the area around the crater.[2]

Visibility

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It was visible from North America, seen rising from Australia, and eastern Asia, and setting from South America, western Europe and Africa.

 

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Lunar year series

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Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
Chart
Gamma
102 1958 Apr 04
 
Penumbral
 
-1.53805
112 1959 Mar 24
 
Partial
 
-0.87571 117 1959 Sep 17
 
Penumbral
 
1.02963
122 1960 Mar 13
 
Total
 
-0.17990 127 1960 Sep 05
 
Total
 
0.24219
132 1961 Mar 02
 
Partial
 
0.55406 137 1961 Aug 26
 
Partial
 
-0.48947
142 1962 Feb 19
 
Penumbral
 
1.25115 147 1962 Aug 15
 
Penumbral
 
-1.22104
Last set 1958 May 03 Last set 1958 Oct 27
Next set 1963 Jan 09 Next set 1962 Jul 17

Saros series

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It was part of Saros series 122.

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 122
  2. ^ F. Link, Eclipse Phenomena in Astronomy (Springer, 2012) p119
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