Annular solar eclipse, Sat, Feb 6, 2027

Not visible from here

The Moon never crosses the Sun from Bismarck, North Dakota during this eclipse. You can still watch the shadow sweep across Earth from the planet-scale view.

Open it in Vantage to watch the discs meet in your own sky, then pull back and see the shadow land on Earth.

The dark inner shadow — the umbra — touches only a narrow strip of Earth. These are the points it crosses, sampled every fifteen minutes.

• 2:14 PM UTC — -44.1°S, 106.7°W · shadow about 304 km wide
• 2:29 PM UTC — -45.1°S, 89.4°W · shadow about 291 km wide
• 2:44 PM UTC — -44.1°S, 78.1°W · shadow about 282 km wide
• 2:59 PM UTC — -42.3°S, 69.5°W · shadow about 276 km wide
• 3:14 PM UTC — -40.0°S, 62.8°W · shadow about 272 km wide
• 3:29 PM UTC — -37.3°S, 57.2°W · shadow about 269 km wide
• 3:44 PM UTC — -34.3°S, 52.6°W · shadow about 267 km wide
• 3:59 PM UTC — -31.1°S, 48.5°W · shadow about 267 km wide
• 4:14 PM UTC — -27.7°S, 44.8°W · shadow about 267 km wide
• 4:29 PM UTC — -24.2°S, 41.3°W · shadow about 268 km wide
• 4:44 PM UTC — -20.4°S, 37.7°W · shadow about 271 km wide
• 4:59 PM UTC — -16.3°S, 33.9°W · shadow about 275 km wide
• 5:14 PM UTC — -11.9°S, 29.4°W · shadow about 280 km wide
• 5:29 PM UTC — -6.9°S, 23.5°W · shadow about 288 km wide
• 5:44 PM UTC — -0.6°S, 13.6°W · shadow about 301 km wide

Penumbral lunar eclipse on Sat, Feb 20, 2027, greatest at 5:12 PM CST. This is the same alignment seen from the other side: the Moon passing through Earth's own shadow. The contact times below are identical everywhere on Earth — only the Moon's altitude is local.

A faint penumbral shading from here

• Penumbra begins: 3:11 PM CST — Moon below the horizon
• Maximum: 5:12 PM CST — Moon below the horizon
• Penumbra ends: 7:13 PM CST — Moon 8° above the horizon

At maximum, 0% of the Moon's disc lies inside the umbra. A lunar eclipse is completely safe to watch with the unaided eye.

A partly eclipsed Sun is exactly as dangerous as an ordinary Sun. Use eclipse glasses certified to ISO 12312-2, or a projection method. Ordinary sunglasses, exposed film and smoked glass are not safe.

The single exception is totality itself: while the Moon completely covers the Sun's disc, and only then, it is safe to look with the unaided eye. Filters go back on the instant the first sliver of photosphere returns.

Contact times come from a topocentric eclipse search for your exact coordinates — latitude, longitude and the Moon's parallax all change the answer, which is why an eclipse is such a local event. Coverage is the fraction of the Sun's disc area hidden by the Moon. The shadow track intersects the Sun–Moon axis with Earth's sphere; it ignores terrain and the small flattening of the planet, so path edges are good to a few kilometres, not metres. See accuracy.