September 1959 lunar eclipse

A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on September 17, 1959.[1]

Visibility

Lunar year series
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

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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 124.

September 12, 1950 September 22, 1968
gollark: I mean, maybe supercomputing facilities will also have test ones and/or some used as accelerators for specific tasks, but it won't be massively commonplace.
gollark: Quantum computing will improve, but mostly still be stuck as a very expensive shiny toy in 2030, though perhaps with some utility in doing specific calculations in research.
gollark: That "less vague" one was for the next decade, by the way.
gollark: Less vaguely, laptops/desktops or other discrete computer-type things will begin to (continue to, actually?) decline as people begin using phones with better dockable IO.
gollark: More vague predictions: computers will generally get faster, but also half the computing power will end up wasted on increasingly flashy animations, poorly programmed applications, and other random nonsense like that.

See also

Notes
  1. Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 117
  2. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.