Locator: your eclipse, at your exact spot
Totality changes kilometre by kilometre. Tell us where you will be and we compute your exact timings, how long your totality lasts and whether it is worth moving.
What you must not do
Look at the Sun without ISO 12312-2 certified eclipse glasses at any point during the partial phase. Ordinary sunglasses, camera negatives and smoked glass do not work.
How this is computed
We do not look up a table: we solve the eclipse for your coordinates using the Besselian elements NASA published for this specific eclipse. That is why it works anywhere on the planet rather than only in tabulated towns, and why the duration changes when you move the point a few kilometres.
The calculation is validated automatically against Spain's IGN municipal durations and against NASA's point of greatest eclipse before every deployment. Differences are one or two seconds.
What to do with the result
- If you are within five kilometres of the centreline, do not move: what you would gain does not justify the risk of traffic.
- If the result says no totality, there is no middle ground: 99% is nothing like 100%. You have to get inside the path.
- Note the altitude and azimuth: they tell you where to look and whether a building or hill will block you.