Sky events

Annular solar eclipse in Aquarius

15:07 UTC

The January 26, 2028 annular solar eclipse in Aquarius brings unusual emphasis to friendship, systems, and the future a group is trying to make. Its traditional reading is a threshold, not a forecast, so notice what changes without rushing to name the whole story.

Peak, universal time
15:07 UTC
In the sign
Aquarius
The Moon stands at
6°10′ Aquarius
Sun or Moon covered
85% at most

When it happens

Eclipse peak

Exact at

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A solar eclipse is also a new moon: the Moon passes between Earth and Sun and covers some or all of the Sun from particular locations. The geometry is exact on January 26, 2028; its symbolic meaning remains interpretive. For this annular solar eclipse, the tradition emphasizes a beginning whose full shape may take time to understand.

Aquarius supplies the subject: Aquarius sees how a personal choice connects to a wider pattern. The caution is that distance can make an elegant principle easier to serve than the people living with it. Around the January 26, 2028 eclipse, bring the larger idea back to the group, person, or practical change it is meant to help. Allow later events to add information before drawing a final conclusion.

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Questions to carry

  • What is changing around friendship, systems, and the future a group is trying to make, even if you do not yet know what the change will become after January 26, 2028?
  • Where could you bring the larger idea back to the group, person, or practical change it is meant to help while leaving room for the eclipse story to unfold at its own pace?

In the real sky

A solar eclipse is a new moon that lines up exactly: the Moon passes in front of the Sun and its shadow falls on part of Earth. This one is annular, with the Sun and Moon in Aquarius.

What to look for

  • The Moon is too far from Earth to cover the Sun completely, so a bright ring stays visible at the peak. Eye protection is needed the whole time, ring included.
  • Never look at the Sun directly, even when most of it is covered. Use eclipse glasses made to the ISO 12312-2 standard, or a pinhole projector: a small hole in card throws an image of the Sun onto a surface below it.
  • Local times differ from the peak: the eclipse starts earlier in some places and later in others, and lasts a couple of hours from first contact to last.

Where it can be seen

The ring of the annular phase crosses the Galápagos, Ecuador, Peru, northern Brazil, Suriname and French Guiana, then ends near sunset over Portugal and Spain. Much of South America, western Europe and West Africa see a partial eclipse.

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Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
Exact instant
2028-01-26T15:07:49.353Z
Ecliptic longitude
306.18° · 6°10′ Aquarius
Maximum obscuration
0.848
Fact source
eclipses.json, generated 2026-09-25

The times of planet ingresses, stations and aspects come from NASA JPL's DE441 ephemeris, read through its Horizons service. Other instants and the positions come from the site's astronomy engine and its committed yearly and monthly sky catalogs, the same data behind the Almanac and the daily horoscopes. Times are universal time; in the Americas an instant can fall the evening before the date printed. Sign-by-sign notes, where present, use whole-sign solar houses. The readings are a tradition being applied, not a forecast. The methodology page sets out both halves.