November 1957 lunar eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse November 7, 1957
(No photo)
umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	135 (20 of 71)
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality
Partial
Penumbral
Contacts
P1	UTC
U1
U2
Greatest
U3
U4
P4

A total lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, November 7, 1957. The Moon barely edged into total eclipse for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. With the Moon just 3.5% of its diameter into the Earth's umbral shadow, the Moon may have been quite bright, but even so, this should have been worth seeing. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 27 minutes in total.^[1]

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Lunar year series

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1955–1958
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart
110	1955 Jun 5	Penumbral	115	1955 Nov 29	Partial
120	1956 May 24	Partial	125	1956 Nov 18	Total
130	1957 May 13	Total	135	1957 Nov 7	Total
140	1958 May 3	Partial	145	1958 Oct 27	Penumbral

Last set	1954 Jul 16		Last set	1955 Jan 8

Next set	1958 Apr 4		Next set	1959 Sep 17

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 142.