May 1956 lunar eclipse
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
| Partial Lunar Eclipse May 24, 1956 |
|
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. |
|
| Series | 120 (55 of 84) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | UTC |
| U1 | |
| Greatest | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
A partial lunar eclipse took place on May 24, 1956.[1]
Contents
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 | |||
Tritos series
The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.
This series produces 20 total eclipses between April 24, 1967 and August 1, 2167, only being partial on November 19, 2021.
| Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type chart |
|
| 115 | 1901 Oct 27 80px |
Partial 80px |
116 | 1912 Sep 26 80px |
Partial 80px |
|
| 117 | 1923 Aug 26 80px |
Partial 80px |
118 | 1934 Jul 26 80px |
Partial 80px |
|
| 119 | 1945 Jun 25 80px |
Partial 80px |
120 | 1956 May 24 |
Partial |
|
| 121 | 1967 Apr 24 80px |
Total 80px |
122 | 1978 Mar 24 |
Total |
|
| 123 | 1989 Feb 20 80px |
Total 80px |
124 | 2000 Jan 21 80px |
Total 80px |
|
| 125 | 2010 Dec 21 |
Total |
126 | 2021 Nov 19 80px |
Partial 80px |
|
| 127 | 2032 Oct 18 80px |
Total 80px |
128 | 2043 Sep 19 80px |
Total 80px |
|
| 129 | 2058 Jun 6 |
Total |
130 | 2069 May 6 |
Total |
|
| 131 | 2080 Apr 4 80px |
Total 80px |
132 | 2091 Mar 5 80px |
Total 80px |
|
See also
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- 1956 May 24 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This Lunar eclipse-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
