October 1968 lunar eclipse
| Total Lunar Eclipse October 6, 1968 | |
|---|---|
| (No photo) | |
 The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals. | |
| Series | 136 (17 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 October 6, 1968, the second of two total eclipses in 1968, the first was on April 13.[1]
Visibility
Related lunar eclipses
Lunar year series
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart |
Saros | Date Viewing |
Type Chart | |
| 111 | 1966 May 4 |
Penumbral |
116 | 1966 Oct 29 |
Penumbral | |
| 121 | 1967 Apr 24 |
Total |
126 | 1967 Oct 18 |
Total | |
| 131 | 1968 Apr 13 |
Total |
136 | 1968 Oct 6 |
Total | |
| 141 | 1969 Apr 2 |
Penumbral |
146 | 1969 Sep 25 |
Penumbral | |
| Last set | 1965 Jun 14 | Last set | 1965 Dec 8 | |||
| Next set | 1970 Feb 21 | Next set | 1969 Aug 27 | |||
See also
Notes
External links
- 1968 Oct 06 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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