Eclipse Calculator – Solar Eclipses in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Eclipse visible in Frankfurt – Sep 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse

The animation shows approximately what the eclipse looks like from the night side of earth.

BETA: This is a temporary animation, it would look different in real life. We hope to fix that issue soon.

Stages in eclipse

• Penumbral Eclipse just started
• Penumbral Eclipse in good progress
• Partial Eclipse starts
• Total Eclipse starts
• Maximum Eclipse
• Total Eclipse ends
• Full Eclipse ends
• Penumbral Eclipse continues
• Penumbral Eclipse about to end

Local times for eclipse in Frankfurt on Monday, September 28, 2015

Click on the Sun/Moon symbols in the column entitled “Looks like” to see what the eclipse looks like during the different phases of the event.

Event	Time in Frankfurt	Direction	Altitude	Looks like	Comments
Penumbral eclipse begins	Sep 28 at 2:13 AM	201°	38.3°		The Earth's penumbra start touching the Moon's face.
Maximum Eclipse	Sep 28 at 3:11 AM	218°	34.0°		Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Partial eclipse begins	Sep 28 at 3:12 AM	218°	34.0°		Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red.
Total Eclipse begins	Sep 28 at 4:13 AM	233°	27.4°		Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.
Total Eclipse ends	Sep 28 at 5:22 AM	248°	18.2°		Total moon eclipse ends.
Partial Eclipse ends	Sep 28 at 6:23 AM	261°	9.3°		Partial moon eclipse ends. Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West.
Penumbral Eclipse ends	Sep 28 at 7:22 AM	271°	0.8°		The Earth's penumbra ends. Moon close to horizon, recommend going to a high point.

Some of the eclipse is very close to the horizon.

Other eclipses visible in Frankfurt

Dates (Click link for path info)	Object	Type at max	Visibility in Frankfurt	Looks like in Frankfurt	Path of the eclipse
Jun 26, 2010	Lunar	Partial	Partial
Dec 21, 2010	Lunar	Total	Penumbral
Jan 4, 2011	Solar	Partial	Partial
Jun 15 / Jun 16, 2011	Lunar	Total	Total
Dec 10, 2011	Lunar	Total	Partial
Jun 4, 2012	Lunar	Partial	Partial
Nov 28, 2012	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Apr 25 / Apr 26, 2013	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Oct 18 / Oct 19, 2013	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Apr 15, 2014	Lunar	Total	Partial
Oct 8, 2014	Lunar	Total	Partial
Mar 20, 2015	Solar	Total	Partial
Apr 4, 2015	Lunar	Partial	Partial
Sep 28, 2015	Lunar	Total	Penumbral
Mar 23, 2016	Lunar	Penumbral	Partial
Sep 16, 2016	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Feb 10 / Feb 11, 2017	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Aug 7, 2017	Lunar	Partial	Partial
Jan 31, 2018	Lunar	Total	Partial
Jul 27 / Jul 28, 2018	Lunar	Total	Total
Jan 21, 2019	Lunar	Total	Penumbral
Jul 16 / Jul 17, 2019	Lunar	Partial	Penumbral
Jan 10, 2020	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Jun 5, 2020	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Jul 5, 2020	Lunar	Penumbral	Penumbral
Nov 30, 2020	Lunar	Penumbral	Partial

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