March 1979 lunar eclipse
Partial lunar eclipse March 13, 1979 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A partial lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, March 13, 1979, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1979. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours, 17 minutes and 40.6 seconds, with 85.377% of the Moon in darkness at maximum.
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Date | 13 March 1979 | ||||||||||||
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Gamma | 0.52537 | ||||||||||||
Magnitude | 0.85377 | ||||||||||||
Saros cycle | 132 (28 of 71) | ||||||||||||
Partiality | 197 minutes, 40.7 seconds | ||||||||||||
Penumbral | 350 minutes, 42.8 seconds | ||||||||||||
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This event followed the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1979.