Total Lunar Eclipse November 18, 1956
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The moon passes west to east (right to left) across the Earth's umbral shadow, shown in hourly intervals.
Series	125 (45 of 72)
Gamma	0.2917
Magnitude	1.3172
Duration (hr:mn:sc)
Totality	1:18:24
Partial	3:29:31
Penumbral	5:32:22
Contacts \| UTC
P1	4:02:10
U1	5:03:31
U2	6:09:04
Greatest	6:48:16
U3	7:27:28
U4	8:33:01
P4	9:34:22

A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, November 18, 1956.^[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

Tritos series

The tritos series repeats 31 days short of 11 years at alternating nodes. Sequential events have incremental Saros cycle indices.

This series produces 23 total eclipses between June 22, 1880 and August 9, 2120.

Tritos eclipse series (subset 1901–2100)
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart	Saros	Date Viewing	Type chart
120	1902 Apr 22	Total	121	1913 Mar 22	Total
122	1924 Feb 20	Total	123	1935 Jan 19	Total
124	1945 Dec 19	Total	125	1956 Nov 18	Total
126	1967 Oct 18	Total	127	1978 Sep 16	Total
128	1989 Aug 17	Total	129	2000 Jul 16	Total
130	2011 Jun 15	Total	131	2022 May 16	Total
132	2033 Apr 14	Total	133	2044 Mar 13	Total
134	2055 Feb 11	Total	135	2066 Jan 11	Total
136	2076 Dec 10	Total	137	2087 Nov 10	Total
138	2098 Oct 10	Total

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 annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 132.