July 1936 lunar eclipse

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July 1936 lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Saturday, July 4, 1936,[1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.2668. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. The Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 6.8 days after apogee (on June 27, 1936, at 21:30 UTC) and 7.2 days before perigee (on July 11, 1936, at 22:05 UTC).[2]

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July 1936 lunar eclipse
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DateJuly 4, 1936
Gamma0.8642
Magnitude0.2668
Saros cycle138 (25 of 83)
Partiality116 minutes, 18 seconds
Penumbral289 minutes, 31 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P115:00:16
U116:26:56
Greatest17:25:00
U418:23:14
P419:49:46
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Visibility

The eclipse was completely visible over south and east Asia, Australia, and Antarctica, seen rising over Africa, Europe, and west and central Asia and setting over northeast Asia and the central Pacific Ocean.[3]

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]

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July 4, 1936 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Penumbral Magnitude 1.27781
Umbral Magnitude 0.26679
Gamma 0.86423
Sun Right Ascension 06h54m24.6s
Sun Declination +22°51'29.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'43.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.6"
Moon Right Ascension 18h53m44.0s
Moon Declination -22°03'02.9"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'33.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'06.2"
ΔT 23.8 s
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Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

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Eclipse season of June–July 1936
June 19
Descending node (new moon)
July 4
Ascending node (full moon)
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Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 126
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 138
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Eclipses in 1936

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Lunar Saros 138

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Triad

Lunar eclipses of 1933–1936

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]

The penumbral lunar eclipses on March 12, 1933 and September 4, 1933 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

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Lunar eclipse series sets from 1933 to 1936
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Date
Viewing
Type
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Gamma Saros Date
Viewing
Type
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Gamma
103 1933 Feb 10
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Penumbral
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1.5600 108 1933 Aug 05
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Penumbral
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−1.4216
113 1934 Jan 30
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Partial
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0.9258 118 1934 Jul 26
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Partial
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−0.6681
123 1935 Jan 19
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Total
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0.2498 128 1935 Jul 16
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Total
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0.0672
133 1936 Jan 08
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Total
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−0.4429 138 1936 Jul 04
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Partial
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0.8642
143 1936 Dec 28
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Penumbral
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−1.0971
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Saros 138

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 82 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on October 15, 1521. It contains partial eclipses from June 24, 1918 through August 28, 2026; total eclipses from September 7, 2044 through June 8, 2495; and a second set of partial eclipses from June 19, 2513 through August 13, 2603. The series ends at member 82 as a penumbral eclipse on March 30, 2982.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 48 at 105 minutes, 24 seconds on March 24, 2369. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[6]

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Greatest First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2369 Mar 24, lasting 105 minutes, 24 seconds.[7] Penumbral Partial Total Central
1521 Oct 15
1918 Jun 24
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2044 Sep 07
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2116 Oct 21
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Central Total Partial Penumbral
2441 May 06
2495 Jun 08
2603 Aug 13
2982 Mar 30
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Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

More information Series members 17–38 occur between 1801 and 2200: ...
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Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

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Series members between 1801 and 2132
1805 Jul 11
(Saros 126)
1816 Jun 10
(Saros 127)
1827 May 11
(Saros 128)
1838 Apr 10
(Saros 129)
1849 Mar 09
(Saros 130)
1860 Feb 07
(Saros 131)
1871 Jan 06
(Saros 132)
1881 Dec 05
(Saros 133)
1892 Nov 04
(Saros 134)
1903 Oct 06
(Saros 135)
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1914 Sep 04
(Saros 136)
1925 Aug 04
(Saros 137)
1936 Jul 04
(Saros 138)
1947 Jun 03
(Saros 139)
1958 May 03
(Saros 140)
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1969 Apr 02
(Saros 141)
1980 Mar 01
(Saros 142)
1991 Jan 30
(Saros 143)
2001 Dec 30
(Saros 144)
2012 Nov 28
(Saros 145)
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2023 Oct 28
(Saros 146)
2034 Sep 28
(Saros 147)
2045 Aug 27
(Saros 148)
2056 Jul 26
(Saros 149)
2067 Jun 27
(Saros 150)
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2132 Dec 22
(Saros 156)
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Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 145.

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