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March 25, 1978 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Invercargill, New Zealand (Waihopai)

Mar 25, 1978 at 4:22 am
Max View in Invercargill, Southland
Global Event: Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Total Lunar Eclipse in Invercargill, Southland
Began: Sat, Mar 25, 1978 at 1:29 am
Maximum: Sat, Mar 25, 1978 at 4:22 am 1.452 Magnitude
Ended: Sat, Mar 25, 1978 at 7:06 am
Duration: 5 hours, 36 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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March 25, 1978 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Invercargill

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looked like in Invercargill. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times were local time (NZST) for Invercargill.

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
1:29 am Sat, Mar 25
Penumbral Eclipse begins The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.Map direction North-northwest 345°
43.1°
2:33 am Sat, Mar 25
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.Map direction Northwest 325°
38.8°
3:37 am Sat, Mar 25
Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.Map direction Northwest 308°
31.6°
4:22 am Sat, Mar 25
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction West-northwest 298°
25.4°
5:07 am Sat, Mar 25
Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.Map direction West-northwest 288°
18.5°
6:11 am Sat, Mar 25
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West.		Map direction West 276°
8.3°
7:06 am Sat, Mar 25SettingMoonset SettingMap direction West 267°
-0.2°
7:14 am Sat, Mar 25Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse ends Below horizonMap direction West 265°
-1.3°

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The curvature of the shadow's path and the apparent rotation of the Moon's disk is due to the Earth's rotation.

This total lunar eclipse was fully visible in Invercargill. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the Moon turns red.

Cloud Coverage (Mar 25)

In the past, this day was cloudy 69% of the time (since 2000).

Lunar Eclipses
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  10. Magnitude of Eclipses
  11. Accuracy of Our Eclipse Calculations
  12. Why Two Dates for a Lunar Eclipse?

Eclipses

Eclipses and Transits Visible in Invercargill

Eclipse Visibility From InvercargillVisibility Worldwide
Feb 21, 1970 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
May 9, 1970 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Sep 1, 1970 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Feb 10, 1971 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 7, 1971 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 21, 1971 Partial Solar EclipsePartial Solar Eclipse
Jan 30–31, 1972 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jul 26, 1972 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jun 16, 1973 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 15–16, 1973 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jun 5, 1974 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 30, 1974 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 25, 1975 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 14, 1976 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Oct 23, 1976 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Apr 4, 1977 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Sep 27, 1977 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 25, 1978 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Sep 17, 1978 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Mar 14, 1979 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Sep 6–7, 1979 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse

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