April 1948 lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, April 23, 1948. A tiny bite out of the Moon may have been visible at maximum, though just exactly 2.3% of the Moon was shadowed in a partial eclipse which lasted for 34 minutes and 18 seconds. A shading across the moon from the Earth's penumbral shadow should have been visible at maximum eclipse.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1947–1951

Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Date viewing	Type chart		Saros	Date viewing	Type chart
111	1948 Apr 23	Partial		116	1948 Oct 18	Penumbral
121	1949 Apr 13	Total		126	1949 Oct 07	Total
131	1950 Apr 02	Total		136	1950 Sep 26	Total
141	1951 Mar 23	Penumbral		146	1951 Sep 15	Penumbral

Saros series

Lunar Saros 111, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 71 lunar eclipse events including 11 total lunar eclipses. The first total lunar eclipse of this series was on April 19, 1353, and last was on August 4, 1533. The longest occurrence of this series was on June 12, 1443 when the totality lasted 106 minutes.

Half-Saros cycle

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118.

April 19, 1939	April 30, 1957

See also

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

External links

• 1948 Apr 23 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC