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Solar eclipse · Wednesday 26 January 2028 · Arequipa, Peru

Partial eclipse in Arequipa, 26 January 2028

The Moon will cover at most 52% of the solar disc (magnitude 0.622), at 08:45:17 (local time in Lima). The Sun will then stand 44° above the horizon, towards the east. There is no totality here.

The path near you
The nearest path of annularity runs 1,171 km from Arequipa, towards the north. From here the Sun is only partly hidden.

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The nearest path of annularity runs 1,171 km from Arequipa, towards the north. From here the Sun is only partly hidden.
The times, for Arequipa
PhaseLocal timeUTSun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun07:18:2912:18:2924°
Maximum08:45:1713:45:1744°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun10:28:4215:28:4268°
What you will see
Maximum as seen from Arequipa, drawn by Novilune.
Maximum as seen from Arequipa, drawn by Novilune.

For about two hours the Moon eats into the solar disc and then releases it. To the naked eye the drop in light is hardly noticeable until three quarters of the Sun are covered; here, at maximum, 52% of the disc will be hidden. Without an instrument or eclipse glasses, nothing will be noticed.

To see totality you must be inside the path of totality — the eclipse map and the list of cities on the eclipse page show where it runs.

In Arequipa, on 26 January 2028, there is no moment at which the Sun can be looked at without protection: eclipse glasses (ISO 12312-2) or projection onto a sheet of paper, from first to last contact.

How to look without burning your eyes →

The eclipse worldwide
Where the eclipse passes. The golden dots mark the towns that see the central phase, the dark ones those where the Sun is only partly hidden. Map computed by Novilune.
Where the eclipse passes. The golden dots mark the towns that see the central phase, the dark ones those where the Sun is only partly hidden. Map computed by Novilune.
Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 16.3989° S, 71.5370° W (altitude 2350 m), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 ephemeris, with ΔT = 69.3 s. The uncertainty on ΔT (± 6 s) shifts all the times together by a few seconds at most; atmospheric refraction is not applied (it does not change the contact times appreciably at this altitude of the Sun).

Times are given in local time in Lima (UT -05:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Arequipa — the two discs at maximum, the Moon's path, the map of the path of totality — and does the same for every new moon from 2000 BC to AD 3000, for any place on Earth, offline.

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All cities, the map and the path of totality →

Also computed for this eclipse