Total Lunar Eclipse of 1967 April 24

Theodore Lunar Observatory Australia

For the Circumstances of this eclipse click here.

For the predicted topocentric penumbra and umbra click here.

David Herald captured an image from this eclipse which has been measured for the semi-diameter of the umbra with Digimizer, my new measuring engine, as shown below:

For an Excel Chart showing the computed topocentric umbra semi-diameter and slope angle data click here:

The circumstances of this eclipse are given by Fred Espenak in this figure, where the semi-diameter of the umbra is given as 0.7708 degrees, larger than the measurement.

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Produced by the Theodore Lunar Observatory Australia - 2006 August 28 modified 2007 December 4 updated 20090120.