December 1963 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse December 30, 1963
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	124 (46 of 74)
Gamma	-0.2889
Magnitude	1.3350
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:18:07
Partial	3:24:18
Penumbral	5:19:57
Contacts UTC
P1	8:27:25
U1	9:25:16
U2	10:28:22
Greatest	11:07:25
U3	11:46:28
U4	12:49:34
P4	13:27:25

A total lunar eclipse took place on Monday, December 30, 1963. The Moon was plunged into darkness for 1 hour and 18 minutes, in a deep total eclipse which saw the Moon 33.5% of its diameter inside the Earth's umbral shadow. The visual effect of this depends on the state of the Earth's atmosphere, but the Moon may have been stained a deep red colour. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 24 minutes in total.^[1]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965

Descending node					Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1962 Jul 17	Penumbral	1.33712		114	1963 Jan 09	Penumbral	-1.01282
119	1963 Jul 06	Partial	0.61972		124	1963 Dec 30	Total	-0.28889
129	1964 Jun 25	Total	-0.14611		134	1964 Dec 19	Total	0.38008
139	1965 Jun 14	Partial	-0.90055		144	1965 Dec 08	Penumbral	1.07748
Last set	1962 Aug 15				Last set	1962 Feb 19
Next set	1966 May 04				Next set	1966 Oct 29

It was part of Saros series 124.

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of January 29, 1953
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of November 29, 1974

• Preceded: Lunar eclipse of November 18, 1956
• Followed: Lunar eclipse of February 10, 1970

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

• 1963 Dec 30 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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