August 1970 lunar eclipse

Partial Lunar Eclipse August 17, 1970
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	118 (49 of 74)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on August 17, 1970.^[1]

Visibility

Relation to other lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1969–1973

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
108	1969 Aug 27	Penumbral		113	1970 Feb 21	Partial
118	1970 Aug 17	Partial		123	1971 Feb 10	Total
128	1971 Aug 6	Total		133	1972 Jan 30	Total
138	1972 Jul 26	Partial		143	1973 Jan 18	Penumbral
148	1973 Jul 15	Penumbral
Last set	1969 Sep 25			Last set	1969 Apr 2
Next set	1973 Jun 15			Next set	1973 Dec 10

Metonic cycle

This is the third of five Metonic lunar eclipses.

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 1951–2027

Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date	Type		Saros	Date	Type
103	1951 Feb 21	Penumbral		108	1951 Aug 17	Penumbral
113	1970 Feb 21	Partial		118	1970 Aug 17	Partial
123	1989 Feb 20	Total		128	1989 Aug 17	Total
133	2008 Feb 21	Total		138	2008 Aug 16	Partial
143	2027 Feb 20	Penumbral		148	2027 Aug 17	Penumbral

See also

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

Notes

1. Saros series 118

External links

• 1970 Aug 17 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC