A total

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 Saturday, September 16, 1978, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 1978. The Moon was plunged into darkness for 1 hour, 18 minutes and 39 seconds, in a deep total eclipse which saw the Moon 32.683% of its diameter inside the Earth's umbral shadow. The visual effect of this depends on the state of the Earth's atmosphere, but the Moon may have been stained a deep red colour. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 27 minutes and 11.6 seconds in total. This is the 40th member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the

September 1960 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on Monday, September 5, 1960. The moon passed through the List of central lunar eclipses, center of the Earth's shadow. This is the 39th member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the August 1942 lunar eclip ...

. The next event is the

September 1996 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 27, 1996, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1996, the first being on Thursday, April 4. This is the 41st member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the September 1978 lunar eclipse. ...

Visibility

It was completely visible in east in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, seen rising over east in South America and setting over the Pacific (west of International Date Line), on September 17, 1978 local time. Lunar eclipse from moon-1978Sep16

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses in 1978

* A total lunar eclipse on Friday, 24 March 1978. * A partial solar eclipse on Friday, 7 April 1978. * A total lunar eclipse on Saturday, 16 September 1978. * A partial solar eclipse on Monday, 2 October 1978.

Lunar year series

Tritos 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 annular solar eclipses of

Solar Saros 134 Saros cycle series 134 for solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an e ...

Saros series

Lunar saros series 127, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 54 umbral lunar eclipses (38 partial lunar eclipses and 16 total lunar eclipses).

interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Notes

External links

* 1978-09 1978 in science September 1978 events {{lunar-eclipse-stub