May 1958 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse May 3, 1958
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	140 (22 of 80)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial	0:21^[1]
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	10:11:49 UTC^[1]
U1	12:02:26 ^[1]
Greatest	12:12:55 ^[1]
U4	12:23:22 ^[1]
P4	14:14:03 ^[1]

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, May 3, 1958. This was the first partial lunar eclipse of Saros cycle 140. While technically a partial eclipse, the Moon barely clipped the Earth's umbral shadow, which may have been very difficult to observe in practice; though a shading across the moon from the Earth's penumbral shadow should have been visible at maximum eclipse. The partial eclipse lasted for 21 minutes exactly. 0.919% of the Moon was in umbral shadow on Saturday, 3 May 1958.^[2]

Visibility[edit]

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1955–1958
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
110	1955 Jun 5	Penumbral	115	1955 Nov 29	Partial
120	1956 May 24	Partial	125	1956 Nov 18	Total
130	1957 May 13	Total	135	1957 Nov 7	Total
140	1958 May 3	Partial	145	1958 Oct 27	Penumbral

Last set	1954 Jul 16		Last set	1955 Jan 8

Next set	1958 Apr 4		Next set	1959 Sep 17

Half-Saros cycle[edit]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[3] This lunar eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 147.

April 28, 1949	May 9, 1967

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Partial Lunar Eclipse on May 3, 1958 – Where and When to See". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
^ "Saros Series of Lunar Eclipses". moonblink.info. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros