September 1997 lunar eclipse
Total Lunar Eclipse September 16, 1997 | |
---|---|
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
Series | 137 (27 of 81) |
Gamma | -0.3768 |
Magnitude | 1.1909 |
Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
Totality | 1:11:30 |
Partial | 3:16:27 |
Penumbral | 5:08:14 |
Contacts | |
P1 | 16:12:32 UTC |
U1 | 17:08:25 UTC |
U2 | 18:15:54 UTC |
Greatest | 18:46:39 UTC |
U3 | 19:17:24 UTC |
U4 | 20:24:52 UTC |
P4 | 21:20:46 UTC |
A total lunar eclipse took place at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on Tuesday, September 16, 1997, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1997. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour, 1 minute and 30.8 seconds. The Moon was 19.094% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 16 minutes and 28.2 seconds in total. The penumbral eclipse lasted for 5 hours, 8 minutes and 20.1 seconds. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours, 16 minutes and 28.2 seconds. The total eclipse lasted for 1 hour, 1 minute and 30.8 seconds. Maximum eclipse was at 18:46:39.1 UTC. The moon's apparent diameter was extremely large (6.3% larger than average) because occurred only 3 hours and 21 minutes past perigee. The Moon was only 356,986 km (221,820 mi) of the Earth at greatest eclipse.
This eclipse was the fourth and last of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 04 Apr 1996 (T), 27 Sep 1996 (T) and 24 Mar 1997 (P).
This eclipse was the 25th eclipse in Saros series 137 (lunar eclipse), descending node. The previous event was on Thursday, September 6, 1979. The next event was on Monday, September 28, 2015.
Visibility
It was visible from all of Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Related eclipses
Eclipses of 1997
- A total solar eclipse on March 9.
- A partial lunar eclipse on March 24.
- A partial solar eclipse on September 2.
- A total lunar eclipse on September 16.
Lunar year series
This is the third of four lunar year eclipses at the descending node of the Moon's orbit.
Lunar eclipse series sets from 1995–1998 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Saros series
It is part of Saros series 137.
Half-Saros cycle
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 144.
September 11, 1988 | September 22, 2006 |
---|---|
See also
References
- ^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
External links
- Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site. Czech Republic
- Saros cycle 137
- 1997 Sep 16 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- The EAAE Lunar Eclipse Project Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine September 16, 1997
- Total Lunar Eclipses seen from Cape Town[permanent dead link] Total lunar eclipse, September 16, 1997.
- Total Lunar Eclipse September 16, 1997, Western Australia
- v
- t
- e
by era
by saros series
Partial eclipses
- 1903 Apr
- 1914 Mar
- 1916 Jul
- 1952 Feb
- 1952 Aug
- 1954 Jul
- 1955 Nov
- 1956 May
- 1958 May
- 1959 Mar
- 1961 Mar
- 1961 Aug
- 1963 Jul
- 1965 Jun
- 1970 Feb
- 1970 Aug
- 1972 Jul
- 1973 Dec
- 1974 Jun
- 1976 May
- 1977 Apr
- 1979 Mar
- 1981 Jul
- 1983 Jun
- 1988 Aug
- 1990 Aug
- 1991 Dec
- 1992 Jun
- 1994 May
- 1995 Apr
- 1997 Mar
- 1999 Jul
- 2001 Jul
- 2005 Oct
- 2006 Sep
- 2008 Aug
- 2009 Dec
- 2010 Jun
- 2012 Jun
- 2013 Apr
- 2017 Aug
- 2019 Jul
- 2021 Nov
- 2023 Oct
- → 2024 Sep
- 2026 Aug
- 2028 Jan
- 2028 Jul
- 2030 Jun
- 2034 Sep
- 2035 Aug
- 2037 Jul
- 2039 Jun
- 2039 Nov
- 2041 May
- 2041 Nov
- 2046 Jan
- 2046 Jul
- 2048 Jun
- 2052 Oct
- 2055 Aug
- 2075 Jun
- 2099 Apr
Total eclipses
- 1504 Mar
- 1910 May
- 1913 Sep
- 1920 May
- 1950 Apr
- 1950 Sep
- 1953 Jan
- 1953 Jul
- 1954 Jan
- 1956 Nov
- 1957 May
- 1957 Nov
- 1960 Mar
- 1960 Sep
- 1963 Dec
- 1964 Jun
- 1964 Dec
- 1967 Apr
- 1967 Oct
- 1968 Apr
- 1968 Oct
- 1971 Feb
- 1971 Aug
- 1972 Jan
- 1974 Nov
- 1975 May
- 1975 Nov
- 1978 Mar
- 1978 Sep
- 1979 Sep
- 1982 Jan
- 1982 Jul
- 1982 Dec
- 1985 May
- 1985 Oct
- 1986 Apr
- 1986 Oct
- 1989 Feb
- 1989 Aug
- 1990 Feb
- 1992 Dec
- 1993 Jun
- 1993 Nov
- 1996 Apr
- 1996 Sep
- 1997 Sep
- 2000 Jan
- 2000 Jul
- 2001 Jan
- 2003 May
- 2003 Nov
- 2004 May
- 2004 Oct
- 2007 Mar
- 2007 Aug
- 2008 Feb
- 2010 Dec
- 2011 Jun
- 2011 Dec
- 2014 Apr
- 2014 Oct
- 2015 Apr
- 2015 Sep
- 2018 Jan
- 2018 Jul
- 2019 Jan
- 2021 May
- 2022 May
- 2022 Nov
- → 2025 Mar
- 2025 Sep
- 2026 Mar
- 2028 Dec
- 2029 Jun
- 2029 Dec
- 2032 Apr
- 2032 Oct
- 2033 Apr
- 2033 Oct
- 2036 Feb
- 2036 Aug
- 2037 Jan
- 2040 May
- 2040 Nov
- 2043 Mar
- 2043 Sep
- 2044 Mar
- 2044 Sep
- 2047 Jan
- 2047 Jul
- 2048 Jan
- 2050 May
- 2050 Oct
- 2051 Apr
- 2051 Oct
- 2054 Feb
- 2054 Aug
- 2055 Feb
- 2058 Jun
- 2065 Jul
- 2069 May
- 2072 Aug
- 2076 Jun
- 2083 Jul
- 2084 Jan
- 2087 May
- 2090 Sep
- 2094 Jun
- 2123 Jun
- 2170 May
Penumbral eclipses
- Category
- → symbol denotes next eclipse in series
This lunar eclipse-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e