March 1979 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse March 13, 1979
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	132 (28 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on March 13, 1979.

This event followed the total solar eclipse of February 26, 1979.

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

Saros series

Lunar saros series 132, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 12 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series on 2123 Jun 9 will last 106 minutes.^[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1492 May 12	1636 Aug 16	2015 Apr 4	2069 May 6
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2177 Jul 11	2213 Aug 2	2429 Dec 11	2754 Jun 26

There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on earth.