An explorer of total solar eclipses visible from land
2 min 18 sLongest totality
95 kmPath width
00:58:47Greatest eclipse (UTC)
73°Sun altitude at greatest
2,400 km/hShadow speed
1.027Magnitude
142Saros series
-0.288Gamma
The simulation: space and ground at once
Top left, what happens in space: the Moon’s shadow sweeping the planet. On the right, what you would see from the chosen spot, at the very same instant. Below, the map of the track. Press ▶ and all three views move on a single clock.
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Speed:
From space · schematic scale
On the ground · —
Wheel to zoom, drag to pan, click to check a point.
The path of the umbra
Path of totalityCentral lineUmbra right nowSunset lineCities inside the path🗺 The corner locates the view on the globe
The Earth · Moon · Sun system that day
The same eclipse seen from outside. The Moon’s position, the shadow cone and the umbral spot come from the official Besselian elements — not from approximate ephemerides — so the shadow lands exactly where it will land. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom.
3D model · Besselian geometry · distances compressed
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Your browser cannot draw in 3D (no WebGL available). The rest of the page works the same: use the map and the simulator above.
Umbra: total eclipsePenumbra: real obscuration, computed point by pointPath of totality on the map🖱 Drag the globe · scroll to zoom
Where it goes
Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia)
New Zealand (Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marlborough District, Tasman District, Wellington, West Coast)
What will you see from where you are?
Type a city of over 20,000 people or a pair of coordinates, or click the map.
What weather to expect
How much Sun is covered, minute by minute?
Percentage of the solar disc covered at Palmerston North. Light does not drop noticeably until past ~85 %; then everything happens at once.
Cities inside the path of totality
Times in each city's own local time, computed one by one.
City
Country
Starts
Totality
Duration
Sun altitude
Palmerston North
New Zealand
12:56
14:22:24 – 14:24:31
2 min 7 s
68°
Wangaratta
Australia
10:01
11:18:51 – 11:20:53
2 min 1 s
62°
Whyalla
Australia
09:18
10:30:35 – 10:32:25
1 min 51 s
52°
Shepparton
Australia
10:00
11:17:23 – 11:19:12
1 min 49 s
61°
Paraparaumu
New Zealand
12:55
14:21:45 – 14:22:20
35 s
68°
How to watch it without hurting your eyes
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Throughout the partial phase, even with a sliver of Sun left, looking without protection causes permanent retinal damage. Use only ISO 12312-2 eclipse glasses. The one exception is totality: while the Sun is fully covered, and only inside the path, you can and should look with the naked eye.