June 1965 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse June 14, 1965
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	139 (19 of 81)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, June 14, 1965. At maximum eclipse, a small bite out of the Moon should have been visible. The eclipse lasted for 1 hour and 40 minutes, with just 18% of the Moon in shadow at maximum.^[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

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 146.

June 8, 1956	June 20, 1974

Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..

1901–2100

1911 May 13		1929 May 23		1947 Jun 03
1965 Jun 14		1983 Jun 25		2001 Jul 05
2019 Jul 16		2037 Jul 27		2055 Aug 07
2073 Aug 17		2091 Aug 29

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

• 1965 Jun 14 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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