Eclipses in 2028
2028 brings 2 solar and 3 lunar eclipses. Greatest-eclipse times and magnitudes computed from JPL ephemeris data, shown in your timezone.
Solar eclipses
| Greatest eclipse | Type | Sign | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 26, 2028 at 15:07 UTC | Annular solar | Aquarius | 0.92 |
| July 22, 2028 at 02:55 UTC | Total solar | Cancer | 1.06 |
The central path — January 26, 2028
The Moon's central shadow touches ground from January 26, 2028 at 13:19 UTC to January 26, 2028 at 16:55 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 — July 22, 2028
The Moon's central shadow touches ground from July 22, 2028 at 01:33 UTC to July 22, 2028 at 04:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 12, 2028 at 04:13 UTC | Partial lunar | Cancer | 0.04 | — |
| July 6, 2028 at 18:18 UTC | Partial lunar | Capricorn | 0.36 | — |
| December 31, 2028 at 16:52 UTC | total (blood moon) | Cancer | 1.44 | 1h 12m |
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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