• Source: March 1997 lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, March 24, 1997, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1997.
This partial lunar eclipse was nearly total; however, it occurred 3 days after the lunar apogee, so the umbral shadow is smaller.
This was the 29th member of Lunar Saros 132, and the last of the first set of partial eclipses. The next event was the April 2015 lunar eclipse, which was the first of 12 total eclipses.
This eclipse was the third of an almost tetrad (that occurred when there were 4 consecutive lunar eclipses that had an umbral eclipse magnitude of 0.9 or greater). The others were 04 Apr 1996 (T), 27 Sep 1996 (T) and 16 Sep 1997 (T).




Visibility


This eclipse was completely visible from North and South America, and visible setting over Western Europe and Africa.




Related eclipses






= Eclipses of 1997

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A total solar eclipse on March 9.
A partial lunar eclipse on March 24.
A partial solar eclipse on September 2.
A total lunar eclipse on September 16.




= Lunar year series

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This was the third of four lunar year eclipses at the ascending node of the Moon's orbit.
The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (Shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events.




= Saros series

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Lunar saros series 132, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 44 umbral lunar eclipses (32 partial lunar eclipses and 12 total lunar eclipses).

There are 11 series events between 1901 and 2100, grouped into threes (called an exeligmos), each column with approximately the same viewing longitude on earth.




= Inex series

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The inex series repeats eclipses 20 days short of 29 years, repeating on average every 10571.95 days. This period is equal to 358 lunations (synodic months) and 388.5 draconic months. Saros series increment by one on successive Inex events and repeat at alternate ascending and descending lunar nodes.
This period is 383.6734 anomalistic months (the period of the Moon's elliptical orbital precession). Despite the average 0.05 time-of-day shift between subsequent events, the variation of the Moon in its elliptical orbit at each event causes the actual eclipse time to vary significantly. It is a part of Lunar Inex series 35.




= Tritos series

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Preceded: Lunar eclipse of April 24, 1986
Followed: Lunar eclipse of February 21, 2008




= Tzolkinex

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Preceded: Lunar eclipse of February 9, 1990
Followed: Lunar eclipse of May 4, 2004




= Half-Saros cycle

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A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 139.




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See also


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




Notes






External links


1997 Mar 24 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
Photos
Dave Lane's March 24, 1997 Lunar Eclipse Movies and Images Archived January 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
March 24, 1997 Partial Lunar Eclipse, Bill Pearce
THE 1997 MARCH 23-24 PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE, CALWELL LUNAR OBSERVATORY
Lunar Eclipse of March 24, 1997, James Funkhouser
The 91% eclipsed moon on March 23-24, 1997

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