December 1964 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on December 19, 1964. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 58 minutes and 54 seconds. The Moon was 17% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, and should have been significantly darkened. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 16 minutes in total.[1] The eclipse afforded astrophysicist J. M. Saari the opportunity to make infrared pyrometric scans of the lunar surface with improved equipment, following up on Richard W. Shorthill's discovery of "hot spots" in the Tycho crater during the March 13, 1960 eclipse. [2]
| Total Lunar Eclipse December 19, 1964 | |
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 134 (24 of 73) |
| Duration (hr:mn:sc) | |
| Totality | |
| Partial | |
| Penumbral | |
| Contacts | |
| P1 | UTC |
| U1 | |
| U2 | |
| Greatest | |
| U3 | |
| U4 | |
| P4 | |
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 109 | 1962 Jul 17 |
Penumbral |
114 | 1963 Jan 9 |
Penumbral | |
| 119 | 1963 Jul 6 |
Partial |
124 | 1963 Dec 30 |
Total | |
| 129 | 1964 Jun 25 |
Total |
134 | 1964 Dec 19 |
Total | |
| 139 | 1965 Jun 14 |
Partial |
144 | 1965 Dec 8 |
Penumbral | |
| Last set | 1962 Aug 15 | Last set | 1962 Feb 19 | |||
| Next set | 1966 May 4 | Next set | 1966 Oct 29 | |||
See also
- List of lunar eclipses
- List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
Notes
- Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 134
- F. Link, Eclipse Phenomena in Astronomy (Springer, 2012) p119
External links
- 1964 Dec 19 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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