A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, September 17, 1959.^[1]

Lunar eclipse series sets from 1958–1962

Ascending node					Descending node
Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma		Saros	Date Viewing	Type Chart	Gamma
102	1958 Apr 04	Penumbral	-1.53805
112	1959 Mar 24	Partial	-0.87571		117	1959 Sep 17	Penumbral	1.02963
122	1960 Mar 13	Total	-0.17990		127	1960 Sep 05	Total	0.24219
132	1961 Mar 02	Partial	0.55406		137	1961 Aug 26	Partial	-0.48947
142	1962 Feb 19	Penumbral	1.25115		147	1962 Aug 15	Penumbral	-1.22104
Last set	1958 May 03				Last set	1958 Oct 27
Next set	1963 Jan 09				Next set	1962 Jul 17

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 total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 124.

September 12, 1950	September 22, 1968

• List of lunar eclipses
• List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

• 1959 Sep 17 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC

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