Partial solar eclipse of 16 December 2047

A partial solar eclipse takes place on 16 December 2047. The Moon covers part of the Sun's disc but never all of it, because the shadow axis passes beside the Earth rather than across it. At greatest eclipse, 88% of the Sun's diameter is covered, seen from 66.7°S 6.8°W.

The numbers

Type

Partial solar eclipse

Date

16 December 2047

Greatest eclipse

23:48:41 UTC

Eclipse magnitude

0.882

Gamma

1.0659

Greatest eclipse at

66.7°S 6.8°W

See it in 3D

The simulator places the Sun, Earth and Moon at their true relative positions for this date and draws the shadow cones at real scale. You can scrub through the eclipse, drop an observer anywhere, and watch the umbra sweep the surface.

Local circumstances

This eclipse misses every city in the database — the track falls over ocean or polar regions. Use the 3D simulator to place an observer anywhere on Earth and read off the contact times for that point.

How these figures were produced

Positions come from astronomy-engine, a VSOP87/ELP implementation. From the geocentric Sun and Moon vectors the site computes Besselian elements — x, y, d, μ, l1, l2, tan f1 and tan f2 — and solves the observer's position on the fundamental plane against the WGS84 ellipsoid. Central durations agree with NASA's Five Millennium Canon to within about half a second. Full method and validation.