June 1964 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse June 25, 1964
(No photo)
The Moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	129 (35 of 71)
Gamma	-0.1461
Magnitude	1.5565
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:40:46
Partial	3:53:12
Penumbral	6:12:06
Contacts (UTC)
P1	22:00:47
U1	23:10:14
U2	0:16:26
Greatest	1:06:50
U3	1:57:14
U4	3:03:26
P4	4:12:53

A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, June 25, 1964. The Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow.

Visibility[edit]

It was completely visible from South America and Africa, seen as rising over North America, and setting over Europe and Western Asia.

Related lunar eclipses[edit]

Lunar year series[edit]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
109	1962 Jul 17	Penumbral	114	1963 Jan 9	Penumbral
119	1963 Jul 6	Partial	124	1963 Dec 30	Total
129	1964 Jun 25	Total	134	1964 Dec 19	Total
139	1965 Jun 14	Partial	144	1965 Dec 8	Penumbral

Last set	1962 Aug 15		Last set	1962 Feb 19

Next set	1966 May 4		Next set	1966 Oct 29

Saros series[edit]

Lunar saros series 129, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, containing 71 events, has 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on May 24, 1910, and last will be on September 8, 2090. The longest occurrence of this series was on July 16, 2000 when totality lasted 106 minutes and 24.6 seconds.

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series occurred on 2000 Jul 16, lasting 106 minutes.	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1351 Jun 10	1513 Sep 15	1910 May 24	1946 Jun 14
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2036 Aug 7	2090 Sep 8	2469 Apr 26	2613 Jul 24

It last occurred on June 14, 1946 and will next occur on July 6, 1982.

This is the 35th member of Lunar Saros 129. The previous event was the June 1946 lunar eclipse. The next event is the July 1982 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series.

Half-Saros cycle[edit]

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[1] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136.