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Global eclipse calendar

Eclipses in 2064.

4 eclipses: 2 solar and 2 lunar. Explore each event's geometry, timing and zodiac positions.

Times are approximate Universal Time at greatest eclipse. Visibility and local start times depend on where you are.

The 2064 eclipse calendar

Types describe the eclipse globally. A total solar eclipse may be partial or invisible at your location. Sun and Moon degrees are geocentric tropical positions at the listed peak.

A Saros number identifies a family of related eclipses. Members recur roughly 18 years apart.

What the eclipse type tells you

Solar eclipses

At a new Moon, the Moon can pass between Earth and the Sun. The alignment must also be close enough to the Moon's orbital nodes.

Total
The Moon covers the Sun along the path of totality.
Annular
The Moon appears too small to cover the Sun completely. A ring remains along the central path.
Hybrid
The eclipse is annular along some parts of its path and total along others.
Partial
Only part of the Sun is covered; there is no total or annular phase anywhere on Earth.

Lunar eclipses

At a full Moon, Earth can stand between the Sun and Moon. A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon passes through Earth's shadow.

Total
The whole Moon enters the darker inner shadow, called the umbra.
Partial
Part of the Moon enters the umbra.
Penumbral
The Moon passes through the lighter outer shadow. The change in brightness can be subtle.

A global date does not tell you what you can see

Solar eclipses look different from different locations. Even during a total solar eclipse, many observers see only a partial eclipse, or none at all.

A lunar eclipse is observable where the Moon is above the horizon during the relevant phase. Weather and the local horizon also affect the view.

Use each event's NASA map for its geographic context. The listed time is the global catalogue peak, not the start or maximum for your location.

NASA's solar-eclipse viewing guidance

Reading an eclipse alongside your chart

Astrologers compare the eclipse degree with natal planets and angles. A contact depends on the measured distance, not merely two placements sharing a sign.

For a solar eclipse, begin with the Sun and Moon near conjunction. For a lunar eclipse, read the opposition between them. The calendar gives their positions at greatest eclipse.

Use your chart's calculated Placidus cusps to locate each position in a house. The same eclipse can occupy different houses in different charts.

These comparisons are an interpretive framework. An eclipse date alone does not establish that a particular event will happen in someone's life.

Open the birth-chart calculator · Understand angular contacts

Where the dates come from

Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC).

The retained NASA/GSFC catalogue supplies dates, eclipse types and Saros numbers. We subtract its published Delta T from Dynamical Time to obtain the displayed Universal Time estimate.

The catalogue's future clock times depend on estimates of Earth's rotation. Times are rounded to a minute; that display is not a one-minute accuracy guarantee.

Astriel calculates the accompanying Sun and Moon positions with Astronomy Engine 2.1.19. These positions are separate from the catalogue's eclipse predictions. No local contact times or visibility calculation is supplied.

Solar catalogue definitions · Lunar catalogue definitions · Astriel's calculation methods