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Every eclipse this site knows about, drawn from the NASA Goddard eclipse catalogue (Espenak & Meeus) — the same table the site's Space posts use to decide when to glow. Times below are shown twice: in UTC, which is how astronomers write them, and in your own clock, which is how you'll actually need them.

Your browser has JavaScript switched off, which is very 1999 of you and completely fine — the full table is below, in UTC.

Lunar eclipses are completely safe to watch, for as long as you like, with nothing but your eyes. Everything below is about solar eclipses, where the rules are simple, short, and not negotiable.

• Use eclipse glasses or a solar filter certified to ISO 12312-2. Sunglasses are not eclipse glasses — not two pairs, not the very dark ones, not a smoked-glass anything. A certified filter cuts the Sun by roughly a factor of a hundred thousand.
• Never look at a partial phase with unprotected eyes. A 99% covered Sun is still the Sun, and the damage is painless while it is happening.
• Never look through an unfiltered camera, phone, binoculars or telescope — not even wearing eclipse glasses. The optic concentrates the light, so it does damage faster than bare eyes and will melt a filter held behind it. Filters always go on the front of the lens.
• Pinhole projection costs nothing and is genuinely fun. A hole punched in card, a colander, a cracker, the gaps between your fingers, the leaves of any tree — all of them throw little crescent Suns onto the ground. Look down, not up.
• Bare eyes are safe only during totality, only inside the path of totality, and only for exactly as long as the Sun is completely covered. The instant the first bead of sunlight returns, the glasses go back on. Outside the path there is no such moment — glasses stay on for the whole thing.

And whatever else you do: know how long totality lasts where you are, and watch a clock. It ends without warning.

Most people are never in the path, and clouds have opinions. On any big eclipse these organisations broadcast the whole thing for free, usually with several telescopes in several countries so that somebody has clear sky. Start times move around, so check the page on the day — that's why they're listed here without one.

• NASA — NASA TV / NASA+ — feeds from along the path
• ESA — European Space Agency, telescope feeds from within totality
• timeanddate.com — live coverage with commentary, plus local circumstances for any town
• The Virtual Telescope Project — robotic telescopes, Manciano, Italy
• Royal Observatory Greenwich — presented and silent streams
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias — via sky-live.tv
• Exploratorium — telescope feeds plus a live score, no commentary
• EarthSky — plain-language coverage and a friendly chat

• NASA Goddard eclipse website — the canonical catalogue (Espenak & Meeus). Every date on this page comes from here.
• NASA Science: eclipses — explainers, safety, and the current mission's worth of eclipse science.
• timeanddate.com eclipse pages — local circumstances for any town on Earth.
• National Solar Observatory — 2026 eclipse map, and nationaleclipse.com for maps and city-by-city timings.
• eclipse2026.is — the Icelandic detail for 12 August 2026, down to the second and the lighthouse.
• ESA's eclipse hub — European coverage, education kits and broadcast plans.

NASA and the US Naval Observatory supply every date above, and the same figures light the rest of the site's lunar furniture — so the two can never disagree with each other.