November 1956 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse November 18, 1956
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	125 (45 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 November 18, 1956.^[1]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1955–1958

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
110	1955 Jun 5	Penumbral		115	1955 Nov 29	Partial
120	1956 May 24	Partial		125	1956 Nov 18	Total
130	1957 May 13	Total		135	1957 Nov 7	Total
140	1958 May 3	Partial		145	1958 Oct 27	Penumbral
Last set	1954 Jul 16			Last set	1955 Jan 8
Next set	1958 Apr 4			Next set	1959 Sep 17

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	Partial		125	1956 Nov 18	Total
126	1967 Oct 18	Total		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	Total
134	2055 Feb 11	Total		135	2066 Jan 11	Total
136	2076 Dec 10	Total		137	2087 Nov 10	Total
138	2098 Oct 10	Total

See also

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

Notes

1. Hermit Eclipse: Saros cycle 125

External links

• 1956 Nov 18 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC