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lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Eart ...
took place on Tuesday, January 19, 1954.
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
Saros series
It was part of Saros series 133.Half-Saros cycle
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, ''The half-saros'' This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses ofSolar Saros 140
Saros cycle series 140 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.
This solar saros is linked to Lunar Saros ...
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Tritos series
* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of February 20, 1943 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of December 19, 1964Tzolkinex
* Preceded: Lunar eclipse of December 8, 1946 * Followed: Lunar eclipse of March 2, 1961See also
*List of lunar eclipses
There are several lists of lunar eclipses
On the Moon, by the Earth
; Type
* List of central lunar eclipses
* Total penumbral lunar eclipse
A total penumbral lunar eclipse is a lunar eclipse that occurs when the Moon becomes completely immersed ...
*List of 20th-century lunar eclipses
A total of 229 lunar eclipses took place in the 20th century: 83 penumbral, 65 partial and 81 total.
See also: Lists of lunar eclipses, List of 19th-century lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
List
Eclipses from 2001 to ...
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External links
* 1954-01 1954 in science January 1954 events {{lunar-eclipse-stub