Total lunar eclipse, 6 August 1971

Eclipses, 1900–2100

Every solar and lunar eclipse for two centuries — the Sun’s shadow drawn on the ground it crosses, the Moon’s nights shown where they can be seen.

• Pick an eclipse from the list, or step through them with the arrows — the ← and → keys work too.
• Click the map anywhere to see when the eclipse happens there, how much of the Sun is covered, and how long totality lasts.
• Choose a place and the list narrows to the eclipses you could see from it — all of them, or only the ones that go total.
• Press play to watch the shadow and the day/night line cross the Earth — and press the little sky disc to stand at your pin and watch the whole thing overhead.
• Lunar too: the ☾ switch at the top of the list swaps to every eclipse of the Moon, with where each one is visible and the Moon turning red.
• The cog changes the basemap, the colours, and whether times are shown in UT or on your own clock.

Settings stay in this browser; nothing about you is sent anywhere. Map tiles are fetched from OpenFreeMap as you pan.

Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, from the Besselian elements of the Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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