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March 1979 lunar eclipse information


March 1979 lunar eclipse
Partial eclipse
Date13 March 1979
Gamma0.52537
Magnitude0.85377
Saros cycle132 (28 of 71)
Partiality197 minutes, 40.7 seconds
Penumbral350 minutes, 42.8 seconds
Contacts (UTC)
P118:12:39.6
U119:29:13.7
Greatest21:08:02.3
U422:46:54.4
P400:03:22.4 (14 Mar)
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A partial lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, March 13, 1979, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1979. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours, 17 minutes and 40.6 seconds, with 85.377% of the Moon in darkness at maximum.

This event followed the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1979.

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