Total lunar eclipse in Cancer
16:51 UTC
On December 31, 2028 the full moon passes through Earth's shadow in Cancer. The full write-up for this date is still to come; the timing and geometry below are already exact.
- Peak, universal time
- 16:51 UTC
- In the sign
- The Moon stands at
- 10°34′ Cancer
- Sun or Moon covered
- 100% at most
- Totality lasts
- 72 minutes
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Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
- Exact instant
- 2028-12-31T16:51:54.549Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 100.58° · 10°34′ Cancer
- Maximum obscuration
- 1.000
- Fact source
- eclipses.json, generated 2026-07-20
Instants and 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.