March 1941 lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, March 13, 1941. The Earth's shadow on the moon was clearly visible in this eclipse, with 32% of the Moon in shadow; the partial eclipse lasted for 1 hour exactly.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1940–1944
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Saros	Date viewing	Type chart
102	1940 Mar 23	Penumbral	107
112	1941 Mar 13	Partial	117	1941 Sep 05	Partial
122	1942 Mar 03	Total	127	1942 Aug 26	Total
132	1943 Feb 20	Partial	137	1943 Aug 15	Partial
142	1944 Feb 09	Penumbral	147	1944 Aug 04	Penumbral

Saros series

Lunar Saros series 112, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 15 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1490 Jun 02, lasting 100 minutes.^[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	859 May 20	985 Aug 03	1364 Mar 18	1436 Apr 30
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	1562 Jul 16	1616 Aug 27	2013 Apr 25	2139 Jul 12

There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on Earth.

1901–2100
1905 Feb 19	1923 Mar 3	1941 Mar 13

1959 Mar 24	1977 Apr 04	1995 Apr 15

2013 Apr 25	2031 May 07	2049 May 17

2067 May 28	2085 Jun 08

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 119.

March 7, 1932	March 18, 1950

References

^ Listing of Eclipses of series 112
^ Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

External links

Saros series 112
1941 Mar 13 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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[1] Listing of Eclipses of series 112

[2] Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros

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