October 1949 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse October 7, 1949
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	126 (42 of 72)
Gamma	-0.3219
Magnitude	1.2236
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:12:50
Partial	3:42:53
Penumbral	6:09:11
Contacts UTC
P1	23:52:19
U1	1:05:28
U2	2:50:31
Greatest	2:56:55
U3	3:33:19
U4	4:48:22
P4	6:01:31

A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, October 7, 1949, the second of two lunar eclipses in 1949.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1947–1951
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date viewing	Type chart	Saros	Date viewing	Type chart
111	1948 Apr 23	Partial	116	1948 Oct 18	Penumbral
121	1949 Apr 13	Total	126	1949 Oct 07	Total
131	1950 Apr 02	Total	136	1950 Sep 26	Total
141	1951 Mar 23	Penumbral	146	1951 Sep 15	Penumbral

Saros series

It is part of saros series 126.

Lunar saros series 126, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 70 lunar eclipse events including 14 total lunar eclipses. Solar Saros 133 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

First penumbral lunar eclipse: 18 July 1228

First partial lunar eclipse: 24 March 1625

First total lunar eclipse: 19 June 1769

First central lunar eclipse: 11 July 1805

Greatest eclipse of the lunar saros 126: 13 August 1859, lasting 106 minutes.

Last central lunar eclipse: 26 September 1931

Last total lunar eclipse: 9 November 2003

Last partial lunar eclipse: 5 June 2346

Last penumbral lunar eclipse: 19 August 2472

1901-2100

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133.