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Solar eclipse

zenith

Obscuration
of the Sun's area
Magnitude
of its diameter
First contact
Maximum
Last contact
Sun position
Observer 53.28°N, -9.0°E

Computed for this site's own latitude and longitude, not for the country. An eclipse is a local event: the Moon shifts by about a degree between one side of the Earth and the other, which is twice the width of the Sun, so where you stand changes what you see.

Positions come from the truncated ELP-2000/82 lunar series and the abridged VSOP87 solar solution, corrected for nutation and for the observer's own position on the Earth's surface. Times are UTC (§0.2) and the drawing is oriented as the sky is, zenith up — not as a star chart. No refraction correction is applied: it lifts both discs by very nearly the same amount and cancels out of the geometry between them, but it means the Sun may still be visible slightly below an altitude of zero.