May 1957 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse May 13, 1957
(No photo)
The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	130 (31 of 72)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on May 13, 1957.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1955–1958

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
110	1955 Jun 5	Penumbral		115	1955 Nov 29	Partial
120	1956 May 24	Partial		125	1956 Nov 18	Total
130	1957 May 13	Total		135	1957 Nov 7	Total
140	1958 May 3	Partial		145	1958 Oct 27	Penumbral
Last set	1954 Jul 16			Last set	1955 Jan 8
Next set	1958 Apr 4			Next set	1959 Sep 17

Saros series

Lunar saros series 130, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 72 lunar eclipse events including 14 total lunar eclipses.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2029 Jun 26, lasting 102 minutes.[1]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1416 Jun 10	1560 Sep 4	1921 Apr 22	1957 May 13
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2083 Jul 29	2155 Sep 11	2552 May 10	2696 Aug 5

1901–2100

1903 Apr 12		1921 Apr 22		1939 May 3
1957 May 13		1975 May 25		1993 Jun 4
2011 Jun 15		2029 Jun 26		2047 Jul 7
2065 Jul 17		2083 Jul 29

See also

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

Notes

1. Listing of Eclipses of cycle 130

External links

• 1957 May 13 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC