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Eclipses (Grahan)

Solar and lunar eclipses for a year, with visibility at your location.

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What this page computes

This page lists every solar and lunar eclipse in a chosen Gregorian year, states whether each one is visible from the city you select, and for the visible ones prints the local contact times: first contact when the eclipse begins, the start and end of totality or annularity where the eclipse reaches that phase at your location, last contact when it ends, and the number of minutes between first and last contact.

Eclipses are typed the way the geometry types them. Solar eclipses come through as Total, Annular, Hybrid or Partial; lunar eclipses as Total, Partial or Penumbral. The date and time in the main columns are the local date and time of maximum, and the table can be filtered by kind and by visibility so that one year's visible lunar eclipses are two clicks away.

Occurring and being visible are two different questions

An eclipse is a global event with a local audience. The list for a year is built by iterating the global occurrences, and visibility is then a separate determination for the latitude and longitude you chose, because an eclipse can be total somewhere on Earth and entirely below your horizon at the same moment.

Contact times are printed only for eclipses visible at your location, and that restriction is deliberate. A contact time for an eclipse that never rises where you are is not a fact about your sky, and printing one would invite exactly the wrong inference. When a row says the eclipse is not visible here, its contact columns are empty rather than filled with a number that means nothing at your coordinates.

Why the times can differ from another table's

Two eclipse tables can disagree for reasons that are not errors. The commonest is that one is printing universal time and the other local time; this page prints local clock time for the selected city and its timezone. The second is which instant is being called the eclipse, since maximum, first contact and the beginning of totality are three different moments and can be more than an hour apart for the same event.

The third is place. Changing the city changes both of the columns that matter: an eclipse listed as not visible can become visible, and the contact times of one that stays visible shift with longitude and latitude. Positions here are computed to sub-arcsecond precision for the instant in question rather than interpolated from a printed table, so the minutes shown are the ones that fall out of the calculation for your coordinates.

What this page does not compute

It does not compute sutak. The page gives contact times and visibility and nothing beyond them; there is no sutak window anywhere in the calculation and none is displayed, and a claim to the contrary was removed from this page's description rather than left standing over a feature that does not exist.

It also does not read an eclipse against a birth chart. Interpretive readings in this codebase live where their citation lives, and this page's job is the astronomy: getting the instants right for your place, so that whatever is done with them afterwards is at least starting from the correct minute.

Reading the table

The year selector spans forty-one years, twenty on either side of the present one, and moving it re-runs the whole calculation rather than paging through a stored list. Rows can be searched by type and filtered by kind and by visibility.

Each row states the eclipse type in full, so a Hybrid solar eclipse, which is annular along part of its track and total along another, is not flattened into either one. Penumbral lunar eclipses are listed alongside partial and total ones even though they are the least conspicuous, because leaving them out would make the year's count wrong.

Frequently asked questions

When is the next eclipse, and will it be visible from my city?
Select the year and your city and the page lists every solar and lunar eclipse in that year with a visibility verdict for your coordinates. Visibility is determined separately from occurrence, because an eclipse can be total elsewhere on Earth while being entirely below your horizon, so the same eclipse can be listed as visible for one city and not for another.
Why does an eclipse row show no contact times?
Because that eclipse is not visible from the location you selected. Contact times are printed only for eclipses visible at your place: a first-contact time for an eclipse below your horizon is not a fact about your sky, and showing it would suggest you could observe something you cannot. Change the city and a row that was empty may fill in.
Does this page give sutak timings?
No. It computes contact times and visibility only. There is no sutak window in the calculation and none is displayed, and the earlier claim that there was has been removed. If you need a sutak convention you will have to take it from your own tradition, because this page does not implement one.
What is the difference between a penumbral, partial and total lunar eclipse?
It is which shadow the Moon enters. In a penumbral eclipse the Moon passes only through the Earth's outer, partial shadow, which dims it slightly. In a partial eclipse part of the Moon enters the dark umbra. In a total eclipse the whole Moon is inside the umbra. The page labels each row with its type, so the three are never merged into one word.
What is a hybrid solar eclipse?
One that is annular along part of its track and total along another, because the Moon's apparent size relative to the Sun changes with the observer's distance across the curve of the Earth. It is listed as Hybrid rather than being flattened into either annular or total.
Are the times shown in local time or UTC?
Local time for the city you have selected, using that city's timezone. This is a common source of apparent disagreement between eclipse tables, since many published lists print universal time, so an hours-long discrepancy is usually a timezone difference rather than a calculation difference.
How many years can I look up?
Forty-one, running twenty years before the present year to twenty after. Each year is computed when you select it rather than read from a stored list, and re-running with a different city recomputes visibility and every contact time along with it.
Does the list of eclipses change if I change the city?
The eclipses themselves do not, because they are global events. What changes is which of them are marked visible from your location and what their local contact times are. A city several thousand kilometres away can turn a visible eclipse into an invisible one and shift the contact minutes of the ones that remain.