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Ephemeris: 03/28/25 – There’s a partial solar eclipse tomorrow, but not for Michigan

March 28, 2025 Comments off

This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Friday, March 28th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 8:05, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:28. The Moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 7:29 tomorrow morning.

There will be a partial solar eclipse tomorrow morning which will end about 14 minutes before sunrise for Northwestern Lower Michigan. It will be visible to the east and north of here, including all the way to northern Asia. It belongs to the same eclipse season as our total lunar eclipse two weeks ago. Eclipse seasons occur twice a year and last about 35 days. During that time, since it’s a little bit longer than a lunar month, there will be at least 2 eclipses, one of each kind, lunar and solar. There’s a possibility of three, if there is a central lunar eclipse. Then there can be two partial solar eclipses, one to the extreme north, the other to the extreme south of the Earth. The eclipse seasons slip a bit earlier each year. Last year’s total solar eclipse occurred April 8th.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

A map of tomorrow's partial solar eclipse.
A map of tomorrow’s partial solar eclipse. The Moon’s umbra from which one could see a total solar eclipse falls north of the Earth, so the Moon only partially blocks the Sun’s light in its penumbra. Only the areas within the bounded area will see the eclipse. The big mishapen red Figure 8 are where eclipse events occur at sunrise on the left and sunset on the right. Credit: Fred Espenak, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, With my own explanatory additions.

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