Next: annular solar eclipse, 6 February 2027

Reading the table

A solar eclipse is a new moon in which the Moon covers part or all of the Sun for people inside its shadow: total when the disc is fully covered, annular when the Moon is too far away to cover it and leaves a ring, partial when only a bite is taken, hybrid when the path changes from annular to total along the way. A lunar eclipse is a full moon passing through the Earth's shadow: total, partial, or penumbral when it only crosses the faint outer shadow, which most people never notice.

The magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse, or for lunar eclipses the fraction of the Moon's diameter inside the umbra; above 1 means total. The node tells you whether the eclipse falls near the north or south node of the Moon's orbit, which astrologers read as a difference in direction: north node eclipses as intake, south node eclipses as release. The time is the moment of greatest eclipse in UTC; where you can see it depends on where you are, and for solar eclipses on being inside a narrow path. The point of maximum, given on each eclipse page, is where that path is deepest.

Eclipses come in pairs or threes about every six months, in an eclipse season that lasts roughly five weeks. The data is in eclipses.json, CC BY 4.0.