A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, March 23, 1940,[1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.8802. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into 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 only about 8.5 hours after perigee (on March 23, 1940, at 11:05 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[2]

Visibility

The eclipse was completely visible over Africa, Europe, and Asia, seen rising over Iceland and parts of the Atlantic Ocean and setting over northeast Asia and Oceania.[3]

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]

March 23, 1940 Lunar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Penumbral Magnitude 0.07888
Umbral Magnitude −0.88017
Gamma −1.50338
Sun Right Ascension 00h11m07.9s
Sun Declination +01°12'22.5"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'02.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8"
Moon Right Ascension 12h09m13.6s
Moon Declination -02°40'07.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'43.5"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'23.1"
ΔT 24.5 s

Eclipse season

See also: Eclipse cycle

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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of March–April 1940
March 23
Ascending node (full moon)		 April 7
Descending node (new moon)		 April 22
Ascending node (full moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 102		 Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 128		 Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 140

Eclipses in 1940

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Tritos

Lunar Saros 102

Triad

Lunar eclipses of 1940–1944

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 April 22, 1940 and October 16, 1940 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the penumbral lunar eclipses on July 6, 1944 and December 29, 1944 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1940 to 1944
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Date
Viewing 		Type
Chart 		Gamma Saros Date
Viewing 		Type
Chart 		Gamma
102 1940 Mar 23
 Penumbral
 −1.5034 107
112 1941 Mar 13
 Partial
 −0.8437 117 1941 Sep 05
 Partial
 0.9747
122 1942 Mar 03
 Total
 −0.1545 127 1942 Aug 26
 Total
 0.1818
132 1943 Feb 20
 Partial
 0.5752 137 1943 Aug 15
 Partial
 −0.5534
142 1944 Feb 09
 Penumbral
 1.2698 147 1944 Aug 04
 Penumbral
 −1.2843

Saros 102

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 102, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 84 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on October 5, 461 AD. It contains partial eclipses from May 20, 840 AD through July 13, 930 AD; total eclipses from July 23, 948 AD through April 20, 1399; and a second set of partial eclipses from May 1, 1417 through July 16, 1543. The series ends at member 84 as a penumbral eclipse on April 4, 1958.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 36 at 104 minutes, 43 seconds on October 7, 1074. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[6]

Greatest First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 1074 Oct 07, lasting 104 minutes, 43 seconds.[7] Penumbral Partial Total Central
461 Oct 05
 840 May 20
 948 Jul 23
 984 Aug 14
Last
Central Total Partial Penumbral
1345 Mar 18
 1399 Apr 20
 1543 Jul 16
 1958 Apr 04

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.

Series members between 1940 and 2200
1940 Mar 23
(Saros 102) 		1951 Feb 21
(Saros 103)
2027 Jul 18
(Saros 110) 		2038 Jun 17
(Saros 111)
2049 May 17
(Saros 112) 		2060 Apr 15
(Saros 113) 		2071 Mar 16
(Saros 114) 		2082 Feb 13
(Saros 115) 		2093 Jan 12
(Saros 116)
2103 Dec 13
(Saros 117) 		2114 Nov 12
(Saros 118) 		2125 Oct 12
(Saros 119) 		2136 Sep 10
(Saros 120) 		2147 Aug 11
(Saros 121)
2158 Jul 11
(Saros 122) 		2169 Jun 09
(Saros 123) 		2180 May 09
(Saros 124) 		2191 Apr 09
(Saros 125)

See also

References

  1. ^ "March 23–24, 1940 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 1940 Mar 23" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 1940 Mar 23". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  5. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses of Saros 102". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  7. ^ Listing of Eclipses of series 102
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