Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Thursday, February 15th. The Sun will rise at 7:43. It’ll be up for 10 hours and 28 minutes, setting at 6:11. The Moon is new today, and won’t be visible. There will be a solar eclipse today that will be a partial blocking of the Sun for parts of Antarctica and southern South America. This is the first solar eclipse to occur since the Great American Eclipse last August. There are three solar eclipses this year and they are all partials with the core of the Moon’s shadow just missing the Earth to the north or south. This year there is another total lunar eclipse, but we will be facing the Sun in daytime when it happens and won’t be able to see it. That lunar eclipse will be visible in Europe and Asia July 27th. One of the other partial solar eclipses will occur 2 weeks before and the other two weeks after that lunar eclipse. That happens when the Moon passes very near the center of the Earth’s shadow.

The times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan. They may be different for your location.

Addendum

There are two eclipse seasons a year at an average interval of 5.7 months. Usually there is a solar and a lunar eclipse at each season, unless there is a central lunar eclipse, when it can be bracketed by a partial solar eclipse about two weeks before and again after. Public domain with annotations by the author.