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Lunar Eclipse, 18 November 1975

A lunar eclipse occurred on 18 November 1975. Event timings (UT) were as follows [1]:

P1 19:27:20
U1 20:38:57
U2 22:03:22
U3 22:43:33
U4 00:07:58
P4 01:19:27

Alan Smith, observing from Ipswich, photographed the eclipse, taking the sequence of images below. Unfortunately, the images were oignally created as slides, which degraded badly prior to being digitally scanned in 2013.

19751118_LE_AJS.jpg

Reference

[1] Fred Espenack, "Total Lunar Eclipse of 1975 Nov 18", see http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot1951/LE1975Nov18T.pdf.


Updated: 28 October 2016