The Moon passes right to left through the Earth's northern shadow.
Series (and member)
132 (29 of 71)
Gamma
0.4899
Magnitude
0.9195
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
3:23:03
Penumbral
5:53:54
Contacts
P1
1:42:26 UTC
U1
2:57:55 UTC
Greatest
4:39:26 UTC
U4
6:20:58 UTC
P4
7:36:21 UTC
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, March 24, 1997, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1997.
This partial lunar eclipse was nearly total; however, it occurred 3 days after the lunar apogee, so the umbral shadow is smaller.
This was the 29th member of Lunar Saros 132, and the last of the first set of partial eclipses. The next event was the April 2015 lunar eclipse, which was the first of 12 total eclipses.
This eclipse was the third of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 04 Apr 1996 (T), 27 Sep 1996 (T) and 16 Sep 1997 (T).
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