When is the next eclipse in Alice Springs?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse
The partial eclipse runs from 2:39 am to 5:00 am local time, and the Moon is up for all of it. All eclipses to 2035 ↓
- Begins
- 11:21 am
- Maximum
- 12:53 pm
- Ends
- 2:19 pm
- Sun height
- 46°
- Partial begins
- 2:39 am
- Maximum
- 3:49 am
- Partial ends
- 5:00 am
- Moon height
- 46° at maximum
Totality within reach of Alice Springs
total eclipses to 2050 whose path passes within 1,500 km| 22 Jul 2028 | Path 180 km to the northeast (110 miles) · 95% covered at home |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Path 910 km to the south (570 miles) · 71% covered at home |
| 13 Jul 2037 | Path 10 km to the south (0 miles) · 99.9% covered at home |
| 26 Dec 2038 | Path 710 km to the southwest (440 miles) · 76% covered at home |
Distance to the nearest edge of the path (NASA path tables). Inside the path, the closer to its centre line, the longer totality lasts.
Every eclipse visible from Alice Springs to 2035
17 eclipses| Date | Eclipse | Local time | From here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 1:27 am – 1:38 am | Whole eclipse |
| 17 Aug 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:54 pm – 6:33 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 7 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse | 2:39 am – 5:00 am | Whole eclipse |
| 22 Jul 2028 | Partial solar eclipse | 11:21 am – 2:19 pm | 95% covered |
| 1 Jan 2029 | Total lunar eclipse | 1:46 am – 2:57 am | Whole eclipse |
| 16 Jun 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse | 2:51 am – 5:15 am | Whole eclipse |
| 25 Nov 2030 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:00 pm – 6:53 pm | 71% covered |
| 21 May 2031 | Partial solar eclipse | 5:30 pm – sunset | 14% covered |
| 5 Jun 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 8:26 pm – 10:01 pm | Whole eclipse |
| 30 Oct 2031 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 3:19 pm – 7:11 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 26 Apr 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 12:10 am – 1:16 am | Whole eclipse |
| 19 Oct 2032 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:08 am – 4:56 am | Totality visible |
| 15 Apr 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 4:18 am – 5:07 am | Totality visible |
| 8 Oct 2033 | Total lunar eclipse | 7:45 pm – 9:04 pm | Totality visible |
| 4 Apr 2034 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 2:23 am – 6:48 am | Moon sets eclipsed |
| 22 Feb 2035 | Penumbral lunar eclipse | 4:27 pm – 8:42 pm | Moon rises eclipsed |
| 10 Mar 2035 | Partial solar eclipse | sunrise – 7:36 am | 28% covered |
Local times (ACST or daylight time as it applies on the day). Solar: from first to last contact while the Sun is up. Lunar: the main phase (totality, or the partial phase), whatever the Moon's height; penumbral eclipses are faint.
Eclipses from Alice Springs, in short
From now to the end of 2035, Alice Springs can see 4 solar eclipses (all of them partial unless marked otherwise) and 7 partial or total lunar eclipses. The next time the Moon covers the Sun completely over the city itself is Saturday, 22 May 2077, 51 years from now. A total solar eclipse only darkens a strip a few hundred kilometres wide, so any one place sees one every few hundred years on average, while a lunar eclipse is visible from half the planet at once.
Weather is not included: these are clear-sky predictions. A partial solar eclipse must only be watched through proper eclipse glasses or a projector; see our eye safety guide.
Questions
When is the next solar eclipse in Alice Springs?
Saturday, 22 July 2028: a partial eclipse from 11:21 am to 2:19 pm local time, covering 95% of the Sun at its peak.
When is the next lunar eclipse in Alice Springs?
Friday, 7 July 2028: a partial lunar eclipse, maximum at 3:49 am local time.
When is the next total solar eclipse in Alice Springs?
Saturday, 22 May 2077, with 2 min 0 s of totality at the city centre.
Nearby cities
Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC: NASA Eclipse Web Site, Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses and Catalog of Lunar Eclipses (Espenak & Meeus): Besselian elements, path of totality tables and lunar contact times. City times are computed by us from those Besselian elements with the standard method (Meeus, Elements of Solar Eclipses), using a current estimate of ΔT (Earth-rotation correction) instead of the Canon's older extrapolation; they agree with NASA's own calculator to 0.1 s and with an independent Skyfield/JPL DE440 computation to within 15 s. Times are for sea level and ignore the lunar limb profile (a few seconds near the path edges). City coordinates: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).