November 1974 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, November 29, 1974, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1974.

Total Lunar Eclipse November 29, 1974
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	125 (46 of 72)
Gamma	0.3054
Magnitude	1.2896
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:15:45
Partial	3:28:57
Penumbral	5:33:04
Contacts UTC
P1	12:27:34
U1	13:29:40
U2	14:36:16
Greatest	15:14:07
U3	15:51:58
U4	16:58:34
P4	18:00:40

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Eclipses in 1974

A partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 4 June 1974.
A total solar eclipse on Thursday, 20 June 1974.
A total lunar eclipse on Friday, 29 November 1974.
A partial solar eclipse on Friday, 13 December 1974.

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1973–1976
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
110	1973 Jun 15	Penumbral	−1.32166	115	1973 Dec 10	Partial	0.96441
120	1974 Jun 04	Partial	−0.54887	125	1974 Nov 29	Total	0.30540
130	1975 May 25	Total	0.23674	135	1975 Nov 18	Total	−0.41343
140	1976 May 13	Partial	0.95860	145	1976 Nov 06	Penumbral	−1.12760

Last set	1973 Jul 15			Last set	1973 Jan 18

Next set	1977 Apr 04			Next set	1977 Sep 27

Saros series

Lunar saros series 125, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has 26 total lunar eclipses. The first was on June 17, 1704 and the last will be on March 19, 2155. The longest totality occurrence of this series (7th) was on August 22, 1812 when totality lasted one hour and 42 minutes.[1]

This is the 16th of 26 total lunar eclipses in series 125. The previous occurrence was on November 18, 1956 and the next will occur on December 9, 1992.

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 132.

November 23, 1965	December 4, 1983

Tritos

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of December 30, 1963
Followed: Lunar eclipse of October 28, 1985

Tzolkinex

Preceded: Lunar eclipse of October 18, 1967
Followed: Lunar eclipse of January 9, 1982

Notes

Listing of Eclipses of cycle 125
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

1974 Nov 29 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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[1] Listing of Eclipses of cycle 125

[2] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros