June 1965 lunar eclipse
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, June 14, 1965. At maximum eclipse, a small bite out of the Moon should have been visible. The eclipse lasted for 1 hour and 40 minutes, with just 18% of the Moon in shadow at maximum.[1]
| Partial Lunar Eclipse June 14, 1965 | |
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 139 (19 of 81) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | UTC |
| U1 | |
| Greatest | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 109 | 1962 Jul 17 |
Penumbral |
114 | 1963 Jan 9 |
Penumbral | |
| 119 | 1963 Jul 6 |
Partial |
124 | 1963 Dec 30 |
Total | |
| 129 | 1964 Jun 25 |
Total |
134 | 1964 Dec 19 |
Total | |
| 139 | 1965 Jun 14 |
Partial |
144 | 1965 Dec 8 |
Penumbral | |
| Last set | 1962 Aug 15 | Last set | 1962 Feb 19 | |||
| Next set | 1966 May 4 | Next set | 1966 Oct 29 | |||
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 146.
| June 8, 1956 | June 20, 1974 |
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Saros cycle
Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..
| Greatest | First | |||
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The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2199 Nov 02, lasting 102 minutes.[3] |
Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 1658 Dec 09 | 1947 Jun 03 | 2073 Aug 17 | 2109 Sep 09 | |
| Last | ||||
| Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
| 2488 Apr 26 | 2542 May 30 | 2686 Aug 25 | 3065 Apr 13 | |
| 1911 May 13 | 1929 May 23 | 1947 Jun 03 | |||
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| 1965 Jun 14 | 1983 Jun 25 | 2001 Jul 05 | |||
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| 2019 Jul 16 | 2037 Jul 27 | 2055 Aug 07 | |||
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| 2073 Aug 17 | 2091 Aug 29 | ||||
Notes
- Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 139
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
- Listing of Eclipses of cycle 139
External links
- 1965 Jun 14 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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