September 1932 lunar eclipse

A partial lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, September 14, 1932, with an umbral magnitude of 0.9752. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, while the other part is in the Earth's penumbra. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. Occurring about 4.8 days before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
This was the last of the first set of partial lunar eclipses in Lunar Saros 136, preceding the first total eclipse on September 26, 1950.

Visibility

The eclipse was completely visible over much of Africa, Europe, and west, central, and south Asia, seen rising over west Africa, South America, and eastern North America and setting over east and northeast Asia and Australia.

Eclipse details

Shown below is a table displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. It describes various parameters pertaining to this eclipse.

Parameter	Value
Penumbral Magnitude	2.02964
Umbral Magnitude	0.97519
Gamma	0.46642
Sun Right Ascension	11h29m54.4s
Sun Declination	+03°15'02.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'54.5"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.7"
Moon Right Ascension	23h29m04.4s
Moon Declination	-02°52'26.5"
Moon Semi-Diameter	15'05.2"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°55'22.0"
ΔT	23.9 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

August 31 Descending node	September 14 Ascending node

Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 124	Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 136

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1932

An annular solar eclipse on March 7.
A partial lunar eclipse on March 22.
A total solar eclipse on August 31.
'''A partial lunar eclipse on September 14.'''

Metonic

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 27, 1928
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 4, 1936

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 4, 1925
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 28, 1939

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 10, 1923
Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941

Tritos

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 16, 1921
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 15, 1943

Lunar Saros 136

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 4, 1914
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 26, 1950

Inex

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 6, 1903
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 26, 1961

Triad

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 14, 1845
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 16, 2019

Half-Saros cycle

A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days. This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 143.

September 10, 1923	September 21, 1941