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Partial Lunar Eclipse June 14, 1965
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	139 (19 of 81)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
Greatest
U4
P4

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Monday, June 14, 1965. At maximum eclipse, a small bite out of the Moon should have been visible. The eclipse lasted for 1 hour and 40 minutes, with just 18% of the Moon in shadow at maximum.^[1]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1962–1965
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
109	1962 Jul 17	Penumbral	1.33712	114	1963 Jan 09	Penumbral	-1.01282
119	1963 Jul 06	Partial	0.61972	124	1963 Dec 30	Total	-0.28889
129	1964 Jun 25	Total	-0.14611	134	1964 Dec 19	Total	0.38008
139	1965 Jun 14	Partial	-0.90055	144	1965 Dec 08	Penumbral	1.07748

Last set	1962 Aug 15			Last set	1962 Feb 19

Next set	1966 May 04			Next set	1966 Oct 29

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).^[2] This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146.

June 8, 1956	June 20, 1974

Saros cycle

Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 42 umbral lunar eclipses (15 partial lunar eclipses and 27 total lunar eclipses)..

Greatest	First
The greatest eclipse of the series will occur on 2199 Nov 02, lasting 102 minutes.^[3]	Penumbral	Partial	Total	Central
	1658 Dec 09	1947 Jun 03	2073 Aug 17	2109 Sep 09
	Last
	Central	Total	Partial	Penumbral
	2488 Apr 26	2542 May 30	2686 Aug 25	3065 Apr 13