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March 1504 lunar eclipse
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A total lunar eclipse occurred on 1 March 1504, visible at sunset for the Americas, and later over night over Europe and Africa, and near sunrise over Asia.
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![]() Drawing of Columbus' prediction of the lunar eclipse to the native Jamaicans, taken from page 273 of "The Romance of Spanish History with Illustrations" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, 1869. | |||||||||||||||||
Date | 1 March 1504 | ||||||||||||||||
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Gamma | 0.4057 | ||||||||||||||||
Magnitude | 1.0956 | ||||||||||||||||
Saros cycle | 105 (53 of 74) | ||||||||||||||||
Totality | 47 minutes, 36 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
Partiality | 205 minutes, 45 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
Penumbral | 339 minutes, 40 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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During his fourth and last voyage, Christopher Columbus induced the inhabitants of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidating them by correctly predicting a total lunar eclipse for 1 March 1504 (visible on the evening of 29 February in the Americas). Some have claimed that Columbus used the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus,[1] but Columbus himself attributed the prediction to the Almanach by Abraham Zacuto.[2]