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April 1930 lunar eclipse
Partial lunar eclipse in 1930 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Sunday, April 13, 1930,[1] with an umbral magnitude of 0.1065. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring about 3.8 days after perigee (on April 9, 1930, at 11:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[2]
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Visibility
The eclipse was completely visible over North and South America, seen rising over eastern Australia and the central Pacific Ocean and setting over much of Europe and Africa.[3]
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Eclipse details
Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
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Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
Related eclipses
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Eclipses in 1930
- A partial lunar eclipse on April 13.
- A hybrid solar eclipse on April 28.
- A partial lunar eclipse on October 7.
- A total solar eclipse on October 21.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 25, 1926
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 30, 1934
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 3, 1923
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 25, 1937
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939
Tritos
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 15, 1919
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 13, 1941
Lunar Saros 111
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 1, 1912
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 23, 1948
Inex
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 3, 1901
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 24, 1959
Triad
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 12, 1843
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 11, 2017
Lunar eclipses of 1930–1933
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]
The penumbral lunar eclipses on February 10, 1933 and August 5, 1933 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Saros 111
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 111, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 830 AD. It contains partial eclipses from September 14, 992 AD through April 8, 1335; total eclipses from April 19, 1353 through August 4, 1533; and a second set of partial eclipses from August 16, 1551 through April 23, 1948. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on July 19, 2092.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 35 at 106 minutes, 14 seconds on June 12, 1443. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[6]
Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
Tritos series
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Half-Saros cycle
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118.
April 8, 1921 | April 19, 1939 |
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