September 1960 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse September 5, 1960
(No photo)
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	127 (39 of 72)
Gamma	0.2422
Magnitude	1.4239
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:26:40
Partial	3:30:50
Penumbral	5:26:44
Contacts UTC
P1	8:38:30
U1	9:36:27
U2	10:38:30
Greatest	11:21:51
U3	12:05:12
U4	13:07:15
P4	14:05:12

A total lunar eclipse took place on Monday, September 5, 1960. The Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.^[1]

This is the 39th member of Lunar Saros 127. The previous event is the August 1942 lunar eclipse. The next event is the September 1978 lunar eclipse.

Visibility[edit]

It was visible over the Pacific Ocean, and seen rising over Asia and Australia, and setting over North and South America.

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
102	1958 Apr 4	Penumbral
112	1959 Mar 24	Partial	117	1959 Sep 17	Penumbral
122	1960 Mar 13	Total	127	1960 Sep 5	Total
132	1961 Mar 2	Partial	137	1961 Aug 26	Partial
142	1962 Feb 19	Penumbral	147	1962 Aug 15	Penumbral

Last set	1958 May 3		Last set	1958 Oct 27

Next set	1963 Jan 9		Next set	1962 Jul 17

Saros series[edit]

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). Solar Saros 134 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1888 Jul 23, lasting 102 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1275 Jul 09	1473 Nov 04	1798 May 29	1834 Jun 21
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1960 Sep 05	2068 Nov 09	2429 Jun 17	2555 Sep 02