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| Date | April 22, 1921 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gamma | 0.4269 | ||||||||||||||||
| Magnitude | 1.0678 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saros cycle | 130 (29 of 72) | ||||||||||||||||
| Totality | 40 minutes, 7 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Partiality | 202 minutes, 2 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
| Penumbral | 331 minutes, 54 seconds | ||||||||||||||||
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A totallunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’sascending node of orbit on Friday, April 22, 1921,[1] with an umbralmagnitude of 1.0678. A lunar eclipse occurs when theMoon moves into theEarth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon's near side entirely passes into the Earth's umbral shadow. Unlike asolar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on thenight side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon'sshadow is smaller. Occurring only about 5.6 days afterperigee (on April 16, 1921, at 16:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[2]
This lunar eclipse was the third of analmost tetrad, with the others being onMay 3, 1920 (total);October 27, 1920 (total); andOctober 16, 1921 (partial).
This was the first total lunar eclipse ofLunar Saros 130.
The eclipse was completely visible over much ofNorth America and westernSouth America, seen rising overnortheast Asia andAustralia and setting over eastern South America,western Europe, andwest Africa.[3]
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Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Penumbral Magnitude | 2.08154 |
| Umbral Magnitude | 1.06782 |
| Gamma | 0.42693 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 01h57m53.3s |
| Sun Declination | +12°02'44.0" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'54.4" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 13h58m18.6s |
| Moon Declination | -11°38'56.5" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'41.5" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°57'35.3" |
| ΔT | 22.2 s |
This eclipse is part of aneclipse 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 afortnight.
| April 8 Descending node (new moon) | April 22 Ascending node (full moon) |
|---|---|
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| Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 118 | Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 130 |
This eclipse is a member of asemester series. An eclipse in a semester series of lunar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternatingnodes of the Moon's orbit.[5]
The penumbral lunar eclipse onMarch 13, 1922 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Lunar eclipse series sets from 1919 to 1922 | ||||||||
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| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||||
| Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | Saros | Date Viewing | Type Chart | Gamma | |
| 110 | 1919 May 15 | Penumbral | −1.0820 | 115 | 1919 Nov 07 | Partial | 0.9246 | |
| 120 | 1920 May 03 | Total | −0.3312 | 125 | 1920 Oct 27 | Total | 0.2502 | |
| 130 | 1921 Apr 22 | Total | 0.4269 | 135 | 1921 Oct 16 | Partial | −0.4902 | |
| 140 | 1922 Apr 11 | Penumbral | 1.1228 | 145 | 1922 Oct 06 | Penumbral | −1.2348 | |
This eclipse is a part ofSaros series 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 1416. It contains partial eclipses from September 4, 1560 throughApril 12, 1903; total eclipses fromApril 22, 1921 through September 11, 2155; and a second set of partial eclipses from September 21, 2173 through May 10, 2552. The series ends at member 71 as a penumbral eclipse on July 26, 2678.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 35 at 101 minutes, 53 seconds onJune 26, 2029. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’sascending node of orbit.[6]
| Greatest | First | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on2029 Jun 26, lasting 101 minutes, 53 seconds.[7] | Penumbral | Partial | Total | Central |
| 1416 Jun 10 | 1560 Sep 04 | 1921 Apr 22 | 1975 May 25 | |
| Last | ||||
| Central | Total | Partial | Penumbral | |
2083 Jul 29 | 2155 Sep 11 | 2552 May 10 | 2678 Jul 26 | |
Eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is oneexeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
| Series members 23–44 occur between 1801 and 2200: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 24 | 25 | |||
| 1813 Feb 15 | 1831 Feb 26 | 1849 Mar 09 | |||
| 26 | 27 | 28 | |||
| 1867 Mar 20 | 1885 Mar 30 | 1903 Apr 12 | |||
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| 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
| 1921 Apr 22 | 1939 May 03 | 1957 May 13 | |||
| |  |  |  |  |
| 32 | 33 | 34 | |||
| 1975 May 25 | 1993 Jun 04 | 2011 Jun 15 | |||
|  |  |  |  |  |
| 35 | 36 | 37 | |||
| 2029 Jun 26 | 2047 Jul 07 | 2065 Jul 17 | |||
|  |  |  |  |  |
| 38 | 39 | 40 | |||
| 2083 Jul 29 | 2101 Aug 09 | 2119 Aug 20 | |||
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| 41 | 42 | 43 | |||
| 2137 Aug 30 | 2155 Sep 11 | 2173 Sep 21 | |||
| 44 | |||||
| 2191 Oct 02 | |||||
This eclipse is a part of atritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic 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 1801 and 2200 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 Mar 30 (Saros 119) | 1812 Feb 27 (Saros 120) | 1823 Jan 26 (Saros 121) | 1833 Dec 26 (Saros 122) | 1844 Nov 24 (Saros 123) | |||||
| 1855 Oct 25 (Saros 124) | 1866 Sep 24 (Saros 125) | 1877 Aug 23 (Saros 126) | 1888 Jul 23 (Saros 127) | 1899 Jun 23 (Saros 128) | |||||
| 1910 May 24 (Saros 129) | 1921 Apr 22 (Saros 130) | 1932 Mar 22 (Saros 131) | 1943 Feb 20 (Saros 132) | 1954 Jan 19 (Saros 133) | |||||
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| 1964 Dec 19 (Saros 134) | 1975 Nov 18 (Saros 135) | 1986 Oct 17 (Saros 136) | 1997 Sep 16 (Saros 137) | 2008 Aug 16 (Saros 138) | |||||
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| 2019 Jul 16 (Saros 139) | 2030 Jun 15 (Saros 140) | 2041 May 16 (Saros 141) | 2052 Apr 14 (Saros 142) | 2063 Mar 14 (Saros 143) | |||||
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| 2074 Feb 11 (Saros 144) | 2085 Jan 10 (Saros 145) | 2095 Dec 11 (Saros 146) | 2106 Nov 11 (Saros 147) | 2117 Oct 10 (Saros 148) | |||||
| 2128 Sep 09 (Saros 149) | 2139 Aug 10 (Saros 150) | 2150 Jul 09 (Saros 151) | 2161 Jun 08 (Saros 152) | 2172 May 08 (Saros 153) | |||||
| 2194 Mar 07 (Saros 155) | |||||||||
This eclipse is a part of the long periodinex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1805 Jul 11 (Saros 126) | 1834 Jun 21 (Saros 127) | 1863 Jun 01 (Saros 128) | |||
| 1892 May 11 (Saros 129) | 1921 Apr 22 (Saros 130) | 1950 Apr 02 (Saros 131) | |||
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| 1979 Mar 13 (Saros 132) | 2008 Feb 21 (Saros 133) | 2037 Jan 31 (Saros 134) | |||
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| 2066 Jan 11 (Saros 135) | 2094 Dec 21 (Saros 136) | 2123 Dec 03 (Saros 137) | |||
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| 2152 Nov 12 (Saros 138) | 2181 Oct 22 (Saros 139) | ||||
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (ahalf saros).[8] This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses ofSolar Saros 137.
| April 17, 1912 | April 28, 1930 |
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