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 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. This event followed the total

solar eclipse of February 26, 1979 A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of the orbit in North America on February 26, 1979. A solar eclipse is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly o ...

Visibility

It was completely visible in east in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and west in Australia, seen rising over the Americas and setting over Asia and Australia. Lunar eclipse from moon-1979Mar13

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses in 1979

* A total solar eclipse on Monday, 26 February 1979. * A partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 13 March 1979. * An annular solar eclipse on Wednesday, 22 August 1979. * A total lunar eclipse on Thursday, 6 September 1979.

Lunar year series

Saros series

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 total solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 139 Saros cycle series 139 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. It has 16 partial solar eclipses, 12 will be hybrid and 43 will be total. The first total eclipse occurred o ...

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