Solar eclipse · Wednesday 26 January 2028 · Iquitos, Peru

Annular eclipse in Iquitos, 26 January 2028

The Moon, slightly too small to cover the Sun, will leave a ring of it for 8 min 39 s, from 08:45:53 to 08:54:32 (local time in Lima). At maximum, at 08:50:12, the Sun will stand 40° above the horizon, towards the east-south-east.

The path near you

Iquitos lies inside the path of annularity, 112 km from its nearest edge, towards the north. Beyond that line the ring no longer closes. The centre line, where the ring lasts longest, runs 60 km further towards the south.

The times, for Iquitos

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	07:15:09	12:15:09	18°
Annularity begins	08:45:53	13:45:53	39°
Maximum	08:50:12	13:50:12	40°
Annularity ends	08:54:32	13:54:32	41°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	10:48:21	15:48:21	66°

Duration of annularity8 min 39 s
Total duration3 h 33 min
Share of the Sun covered84%
Magnitude0.944
Sun's altitude at maximum40°

What you will see

Maximum as seen from Iquitos, drawn by Novilune.

That day the Moon is slightly too far from the Earth to cover the whole Sun: at maximum it leaves a bright ring. The sky darkens noticeably but never becomes night, and eye protection remains necessary from start to finish, ring included.

The annular phase lasts 8 min 39 s, from 08:45:53 to 08:54:32; the partial phase ends at 10:48:21.

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Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 3.7494° S, 73.2444° W (altitude 102 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 Iquitos — 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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Also computed for this eclipse