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March 24, 1959 — Partial Lunar Eclipse — Lisbon, Portugal (Lisboa)

Mar 24, 1959 at 8:11 pm
Max View in Lisbon, Lisbon
Global Event: Partial Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Lunar Eclipse in Lisbon, Lisbon
Began: Tue, Mar 24, 1959 at 6:45 pm
Maximum: Tue, Mar 24, 1959 at 8:11 pm 0.264 Magnitude
Ended: Tue, Mar 24, 1959 at 10:25 pm
Duration: 3 hours, 40 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

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March 24, 1959 — Partial Lunar Eclipse — Lisbon

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

TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
5:57 pm Tue, Mar 24Not directly visiblePenumbral Eclipse begins Below horizonMap direction East 85°
-9.8°
6:45 pm Tue, Mar 24RisingMoonrise RisingMap direction East 92°
-0.2°
7:16 pm Tue, Mar 24
Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East.		Map direction East 97°
5.0°
8:11 pm Tue, Mar 24
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.Map direction East-southeast 106°
14.9°
9:06 pm Tue, Mar 24
Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.Map direction East-southeast 115°
24.4°
10:25 pm Tue, Mar 24
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.Map direction Southeast 133°
36.6°

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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.

During this partial lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow covered only parts of the Moon, as seen from Lisbon. There were no other locations on Earth where the Moon appeared completely covered during this event.

Cloud Coverage (Mar 24)

In the past, this day was cloudy 72% of the time (since 2000).

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Eclipses and Transits Visible in Lisbon

Eclipse Visibility From LisbonVisibility Worldwide
Apr 2–3, 1950 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Sep 26, 1950 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Aug 17, 1951 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Sep 1, 1951 Partial Solar EclipseAnnular Solar Eclipse
Feb 10–11, 1952 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Feb 25, 1952 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Aug 5, 1952 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Jan 29–30, 1953 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Nov 14, 1953 Mercury TransitMercury Transit
Jan 18–19, 1954 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Jun 30, 1954 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse
Jul 15–16, 1954 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 29, 1955 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Nov 18, 1956 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
May 13–14, 1957 Total Lunar EclipseTotal Lunar Eclipse
Apr 4, 1958 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mar 24, 1959 Partial Lunar EclipsePartial Lunar Eclipse
Sep 16–17, 1959 Penumbral Lunar EclipsePenumbral Lunar Eclipse
Oct 2, 1959 Partial Solar EclipseTotal Solar Eclipse

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