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Ephemeris: 03/03/2026 – Eclipse prospects for the rest of the year

March 3, 2026 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, March 3rd. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 16 minutes, setting at 6:33, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:14. The Moon, at full today, will rise at 7:04 this evening.

If you’re listening to me right now the total lunar eclipse this morning has ended or will shortly end. In any case it’s invisible because, even if it’s ongoing, twilight has wiped it out. Then there is the possibility of clouds, which I can’t predict from when I’m recording this Sunday night. We do have another chance to view a lunar eclipse, this year, on the night of August 27-28th. It’ll be a little bit earlier. It will start late in the evening and be almost total after midnight. There’s also going to be a solar eclipse on August 12th, but it will be just a little nibble of the moon on the sun for us. It’s going to be total for the east coast of Greenland, the northern Atlantic, and northern Spain, before ending at sunset in the Mediterranean Sea.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EST, UT – 5 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

Maximums of the two eclipses visible from the Grand Traverse area in August 2026,
The maximums of the two eclipses visible from the Grand Traverse area in August of 2026. The solar eclipse of August 12th only lasts a little more than an hour, and at maximum the Moon encroaches only 11% into the Sun’s diameter. The August 28th partial lunar eclipse is more substantial. It will last three in the third hours and the Moon will immerse 93% of its diameter into the Earth’s inner shadow called the umbra, where the only sunlight to reach it filters through the Earth’s atmosphere from all the sunrises and sunsets around the world at the time. Sun and Moon images created using Stellarium.
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