Oct 8, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse
What this lunar eclipse looks like
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
Click the 'play' button to view the animation. The pause button can also be used to temporarily suspend the animation.
The animation shows where this penumbral solar eclipse is visible during the night (dark “wave” slowly moving across the Earth's surface).
The night (dark) areas in the animation are approximately those that can see the moon, and therefore also the eclipse.
Legend
Intense red shading: Observers within this area can see the eclipse from beginning to end.
Red shading left/west of intense shading: Observers within this area can see the eclipse until moonset/sunrise.
Red shading right/east of intense shading: Observers within this area can see the eclipse after moonrise/sunset.
No coloring: Eclipse is not visible at all
Note: Actual eclipse visibility depends on weather conditions
Where to see the eclipse
Continents seeing at least some parts of the eclipse:
- West in Asia
- West in Australia
- Parts of North America
- East in South America
Total eclipse visible in...
Locations near the shadow's path:
- Dili, Timor-Leste
- Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Irkutsk, Russia
- Jakarta, Jakarta Special Capital Region, Indonesia
- Norilsk, Russia
- Manila, Philippines
- Chongqing, China
- Shanghai, China
- Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Vientiane, Laos
- Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
- Beijing, China
- Singapore, Singapore
- Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Partial eclipse visible in...
- Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Novokuznetsk, Russia
- Lhasa, China
- Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Ürümqi, China
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Thimphu, Bhutan
- Novosibirsk, Russia
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Omsk, Russia
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Karaganda, Kazakhstan
- Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Sri Lanka
- Hyderãbãd, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
When the eclipse happens worldwide
Lunar eclipses look approximately the same all over the world and happen at the same time.The times displayed might be a minute or two off actual times.
| Event | UTC Time | Time in Palo Alto* | Visible in Palo Alto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penumbral Eclipse begins | Oct 8 at 8:17 AM | Oct 8 at 1:17 AM | Yes |
| Partial Eclipse begins | Oct 8 at 9:18 AM | Oct 8 at 2:18 AM | Yes |
| Full Eclipse begins | Oct 8 at 10:27 AM | Oct 8 at 3:27 AM | Yes |
| Maximum Eclipse | Oct 8 at 10:55 AM | Oct 8 at 3:55 AM | Yes |
| Full Eclipse ends | Oct 8 at 11:22 AM | Oct 8 at 4:22 AM | Yes |
| Partial Eclipse ends | Oct 8 at 12:32 PM | Oct 8 at 5:32 AM | Yes |
| Penumbral Eclipse ends | Oct 8 at 1:32 PM | Oct 8 at 6:32 AM | Yes |
* The Moon is over the horizon during this eclipse, so with good weather conditions in Palo Alto, the entire eclipse is visible.
Eclipses during year 2014
- Apr 15, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse
- Apr 29, 2014 Annular Solar Eclipse
- Oct 8, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse (Currently shown)
- Oct 23, 2014 Partial Solar Eclipse