November 1957 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, November 7, 1957. The Moon barely edged into total eclipse for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. With the Moon just 3.5% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, the Moon may have been quite bright, but even so, this should have been worth seeing. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 27 minutes in total.[1]
| Total Lunar Eclipse November 7, 1957 | |
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 135 (20 of 71) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | UTC |
| U1 | |
| U2 | |
| Greatest | |
| U3 | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 110 | 1955 Jun 5 |
Penumbral |
115 | 1955 Nov 29 |
Partial | |
| 120 | 1956 May 24 |
Partial |
125 | 1956 Nov 18 |
Total | |
| 130 | 1957 May 13 |
Total |
135 | 1957 Nov 7 |
Total | |
| 140 | 1958 May 3 |
Partial |
145 | 1958 Oct 27 |
Penumbral | |
| Last set | 1954 Jul 16 | Last set | 1955 Jan 8 | |||
| Next set | 1958 Apr 4 | Next set | 1959 Sep 17 | |||
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 142.
| November 1, 1948 | November 12, 1966 |
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Notes
- Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 135
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links
- 1957 Nov 07 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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