September 1978 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse September 16, 1978
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	127 (40 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on September 16, 1978.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1977-1980

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
112	1977 Apr 04	Partial		117	1977 Sep 27	Penumbral
122	1978 Mar 24	Total		127	1978 Sep 16	Total
132	1979 Mar 13	Partial		137	1979 Sep 06	Total
142	1980 Mar 01	Penumbral		147	1980 Aug 26	Penumbral
Last set	1976 May 13			Last set	1976 Nov 06
Next set	1981 Jan 20			Next set	1980 Jul 27

Tritos series

The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.

This series produces 23 total eclipses between June 22, 1880 and August 9, 2120.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart
119	1902 Apr 22	Partial		120	1913 Mar 22	Partial
121	1924 Feb 20	Partial		122	1935 Jan 19	Partial
124	1945 Dec 19 80px	Partial 80px		125	1956 Nov 18	Total
126	1967 Oct 18 80px	Total 80px		127	1978 Sep 16	Total
128	1989 Aug 17	Total		129	2000 Jul 16	Total
130	2011 Jun 15	Total		131	2022 May 16	Total
132	2033 Apr 14	Total		133	2044 Mar 13 80px	Total 80px
134	2055 Feb 11 80px	Total 80px		135	2066 Jan 11 80px	Total 80px
136	2076 Dec 10	Total		137	2087 Nov 10	Total
138	2098 Oct 10 80px	Total 80px

See also

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

External links

• 1978 Sep 16 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC