April 1967 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse April 24, 1967
(No photo)
240px The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	121 (53 of 82)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on April 24, 1967.^[1]

This lunar eclipse is first of a tetrad, four total lunar eclipses in series. The following tetrad is in 1985 and 1986, starting with a May 1985 lunar eclipse.

Visibility

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Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1966–1969
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
111	1966 May 4 80px	Penumbral 80px	116	1966 Oct 29 80px	Penumbral 80px
121	1967 Apr 24 80px	Total 80px	126	1967 Oct 18 80px	Total 80px
131	1968 Apr 13 80px	Total 80px	136	1968 Oct 6 80px	Total 80px
141	1969 Apr 2 80px	Penumbral 80px	146	1969 Sep 25 80px	Penumbral 80px

Last set	1965 Jun 14		Last set	1965 Dec 8

Next set	1970 Feb 21		Next set	1969 Aug 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 20 total eclipses between April 24, 1967 and August 1, 2167, only being partial on November 19, 2021.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart
115	1901 Oct 27 80px	Partial 80px	116	1912 Sep 26 80px	Partial 80px
117	1923 Aug 26 80px	Partial 80px	118	1934 Jul 26 80px	Partial 80px
119	1945 Jun 25 80px	Partial 80px	120	1956 May 24	Partial
121	1967 Apr 24 80px	Total 80px	122	1978 Mar 24	Total
123	1989 Feb 20 80px	Total 80px	124	2000 Jan 21 80px	Total 80px
125	2010 Dec 21	Total	126	2021 Nov 19 80px	Partial 80px
127	2032 Oct 18 80px	Total 80px	128	2043 Sep 19 80px	Total 80px
129	2058 Jun 6	Total	130	2069 May 6	Total
131	2080 Apr 4 80px	Total 80px	132	2091 Mar 5 80px	Total 80px

Metonic series

This eclipse is the third of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, April 23–24, each separated by 19 years:

The Metonic cycle repeats nearly exactly every 19 years and represents a Saros cycle plus one lunar year. Because it occurs on the same calendar date, the Earth's shadow will in nearly the same location relative to the background stars.

Metonic lunar eclipse sets 1948–2005
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type	Saros	Date	Type
111	1948 Apr 23	Partial	116	1948 Oct 18	Penumbral
120px			120px
121	1967 Apr 24	Total	126	1967 Oct 18	Total
120px			120px
131	1986 Apr 24	Total	136	1986 Oct 17	Total
120px			120px
141	2005 Apr 24	Penumbral	146	2005 Oct 17	Partial