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| align=center colspan=2| [[Image:Lunar eclipse chart close-1996Apr04.png|240px]]<BR>The moon's path through the center of the Earth's shadow. |
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Revision as of 13:07, 18 February 2017
Total Lunar Eclipse April 4, 1996 | |
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Hamois, Belgium | |
The moon's path through the center of the Earth's shadow. | |
Series (and member) | 122 (55 of 75) |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Totality | 1:25:45 |
Partial | 3:37:08 |
Penumbral | 5:44:43 |
Contacts | |
P1 | 21:17:22 UTC |
U1 | 22:21:13 UTC |
U2 | 23:26:54 UTC |
Greatest | 0:09:48 UTC |
U3 | 0:52:39 UTC |
U4 | 1:58:21 UTC |
P4 | 3:02:04 UTC |
A total lunar eclipse took place on April 4, 1996. The moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.
This is the 55th member of Lunar Saros 122. The previous event is the March 1978 lunar eclipse. The next event is the April 2014 lunar eclipse.
Visibility
It could be seen completely over Africa, and Europe, seen rising over North and South America, and setting over Western Asia.
Gallery
Hamois, Belgium |
Related eclipses
Lunar year series
This is the second of four lunar year eclipses at the descending node of the moon's orbit.
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1995–1998 | ||||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
Saros Photo |
Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | Saros Photo |
Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Gamma | |
112 | 1995 Apr 15 |
Partial |
−0.95939 | 117 | 1995 Oct 08 |
Penumbral |
1.11794 | |
122 |
1996 Apr 04 |
Total |
−0.25339 | 127 |
1996 Sep 27 |
Total |
0.34264 | |
132 |
1997 Mar 24 |
Partial |
0.48990 | 137 | 1997 Sep 16 |
Total |
−0.37684 | |
142 | 1998 Mar 13 |
Penumbral |
1.19644 | 147 | 1998 Sep 06 |
Penumbral |
−1.10579 | |
Last set | 1994 May 25 | Last set | 1994 Nov 18 | |||||
Next set | 1999 Jan 31 | Next set | 1998 Aug 08 |
See also
External links
- Saros cycle 122
- Andrés Valencia: Total Lunar Eclipse - April 3 '96
- 1996 Apr 04 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC