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Eclipses in 2033

2033 brings 2 solar and 2 lunar eclipses. Greatest-eclipse times and magnitudes computed from JPL ephemeris data, shown in your timezone.

Solar eclipses

Greatest eclipseTypeSignMagnitude
March 30, 2033 at 18:01 UTCTotal solarAries1.05
September 23, 2033 at 13:53 UTCPartial solarLibra0.69

The central path — March 30, 2033

The Moon's central shadow touches ground from March 30, 2033 at 17:41 UTC to March 30, 2033 at 18:21 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. A path this many years out carries real Earth-rotation uncertainty — a few tens of kilometers either way — which no one can compute away yet; the track sharpens as the date approaches.

Lunar eclipses

Greatest eclipseTypeSignMagnitudeTotality
April 14, 2033 at 19:13 UTCPartial lunarLibra1.070h 49m
October 8, 2033 at 10:56 UTCtotal (blood moon)Aries1.651h 19m

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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