May 1937 lunar eclipse
A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, May 25, 1937, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1937.

Visibility
    

Related lunar eclipses
    
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Date Viewing  | 
Type Chart  | 
Saros | Date Viewing  | 
Type Chart  | |
| 110 | 1937 May 25![]()  | 
Penumbral![]()  | 
115 | 1937 Nov 18![]()  | 
Partial![]()  | |
| 120 | 1938 May 14![]()  | 
Total![]()  | 
125 | 1938 Nov 07![]()  | 
Total![]()  | |
| 130 | 1939 May 03![]()  | 
Total![]()  | 
135 | 1939 Oct 28![]()  | 
Partial![]()  | |
| 140 | 1940 Apr 22![]()  | 
Penumbral![]()  | 
145 | 1940 Oct 16![]()  | 
Penumbral![]()  | |
Half-Saros cycle
    
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros).[1] This lunar eclipse is related to one total and one partial = two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117.
| May 19, 1928 | May 30, 1946 | 
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Notes
    
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Jean Meeus, p.110, Chapter 18, The half-saros
 
External links
    
- 1937 May 25 chart Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
 
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