A partial

lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth ...

took place on Monday, August 17, 1970, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1970, the first was on

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of that year. The Earth's shadow on the Moon was clearly visible in this eclipse, with 41% of the Moon in shadow; the partial eclipse lasted for 2 hours and 11 minutes. It was the second of two lunar eclipses in 1970.

More details about the Partial Lunar Eclipse of 17 August 1970.

Penumbral Magnitude: 1.35215 Umbral Magnitude: 0.40797 Gamma: -0.80534 Date: Monday, 17 August 1970 Saros Series: 118th (49 of 73) Greatest Eclipse: 1970 August 17 at 03:23:25.6 UTC Sun Right Ascension: 9.74 Sun Declination: 13.6 Sun Diameter: 1895.8 arc-seconds Moon Right Ascension: 21.77 Moon Declination: -14.3 Moon Diameter: 2007.8 arc-seconds The total duration of the eclipse was 4 hours, 31 minutes. The duration of the partial eclipse was 2 hours, 11 minutes.

Visibility

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Metonic cycle

This is the third of five Metonic lunar eclipses.

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, ''The half-saros'' This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 125 Saros cycle series 125 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node. This solar saros is linked to Lunar Saros 118 ...

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