Eclipses in 2026
2026 brings 2 solar and 2 lunar eclipses. Greatest-eclipse times and magnitudes computed from JPL ephemeris data, shown in your timezone.
Solar eclipses
| Greatest eclipse | Type | Sign | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2026 at 12:11 UTC | Annular solar | Aquarius | 0.96 |
| August 12, 2026 at 17:45 UTC | Total solar | Leo | 1.04 |
The central path — February 17, 2026
The Moon's central shadow touches ground from February 17, 2026 at 11:47 UTC to February 17, 2026 at 12:35 UTC, sweeping the gold line; the dot is greatest eclipse. Along that track the eclipse is annular — a ring of Sun around the Moon; partial phases reach far beyond it. Computed by sweeping the shadow axis's ground intersection at two-minute steps.
The central path — August 12, 2026
The Moon's central shadow touches ground from August 12, 2026 at 16:59 UTC to August 12, 2026 at 18:31 UTC, sweeping the gold line; the dot is greatest eclipse. Along that track the eclipse is total; partial phases reach far beyond it. Computed by sweeping the shadow axis's ground intersection at two-minute steps.
Lunar eclipses
| Greatest eclipse | Type | Sign | Magnitude | Totality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2026 at 11:33 UTC | total (blood moon) | Virgo | 1.25 | 0h 59m |
| August 28, 2026 at 04:12 UTC | Partial lunar | Pisces | 0.91 | — |
Reading the table
A solar eclipse is a new moon precise enough that the Moon covers part or all of the Sun for observers somewhere on Earth; a lunar eclipse is a full moon precise enough that the Moon crosses Earth's shadow. For solar eclipses, the magnitude is the deepest coverage seen anywhere on Earth (1.0 or higher means somewhere sees totality); for lunar, how deep the Moon sits in Earth's umbra — penumbral eclipses are subtle shadings most people never notice. For central solar eclipses the map shows the central path — where totality or annularity is actually seen; a partial solar eclipse has no central path, only a wide region of partial coverage, so it gets no map rather than a pretend one. A total lunar eclipse — a blood moon — is visible from the entire night side of Earth at once.
Astrologers treat eclipses as punctuation on the regular lunar cycle: a solar eclipse as an emphatic new-moon beginning, a lunar eclipse as an emphatic full-moon reveal, in the sign where they land.
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