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Eclipse calendar

Every lunar eclipse in the next five years, flagged whether the Moon is above the horizon here to see it, plus every solar eclipse that is at least partially visible from Port Louis, Mauritius.

Computed for Port Louis, Mauritius (-20.1609, 57.5012)

DateTypeLocal time (max)MagnitudeVisible from here?
2027-02-06Partial solar eclipse (annular elsewhere on Earth)20:5624%Yes
2027-02-21Penumbral lunar eclipse03:1293%Yes
2027-07-18Penumbral lunar eclipse20:030%Yes
2027-08-02Partial solar eclipse (total elsewhere on Earth)15:4532%Yes
2027-08-17Penumbral lunar eclipse11:1354%No — below the horizon
2028-01-12Partial lunar eclipse08:137%No — below the horizon
2028-07-06Partial lunar eclipse22:1939%Yes
2028-07-22Partial solar eclipse (total elsewhere on Earth)05:3184%Yes
2028-12-31Total lunar eclipse20:52125%Yes
2029-06-26Total lunar eclipse07:22184%Yes
2029-12-21Total lunar eclipse02:42112%Yes
2030-06-15Partial lunar eclipse22:3350%Yes
2030-11-25Partial solar eclipse (total elsewhere on Earth)09:5640%Yes
2030-12-10Penumbral lunar eclipse02:2794%Yes
2031-05-07Penumbral lunar eclipse07:5088%Yes
2031-05-21Partial solar eclipse (annular elsewhere on Earth)09:5738%Yes
2031-06-05Penumbral lunar eclipse15:4413%No — below the horizon

Computed with skyfield against the JPL DE440s ephemeris kernel. Lunar eclipses use skyfield's own reference-grade finder (Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac 11.2.3); solar eclipse visibility is found by searching for the closest topocentric Sun-Moon approach near each new moon. Local start/end times are an outward step-search from each eclipse's maximum (2-minute resolution) — not a full eclipse-path calculation, but sufficient to know roughly when to look up. Only solar eclipses visible from Mauritius are listed; a solar eclipse invisible here is left off rather than padding the table with irrelevant global events.

Why are some lunar eclipses marked 'not visible' here?

A lunar eclipse happens wherever the Moon is above the horizon at the time — Mauritius sees the Moon roughly half of any given day, so an eclipse whose maximum falls during Mauritius's daytime (when the Moon has already set or hasn't risen) is not visible from here, even though observers on the other side of the world see it fine.

Why don't you list every solar eclipse worldwide?

This page's scope is eclipses visible from Mauritius specifically. A total solar eclipse crossing, say, North America has zero visibility from the Indian Ocean, so it is left off rather than listed as an irrelevant 'not visible' row for every single solar eclipse on Earth.

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