2 August 2027

The eclipse of 2 August 2027: six minutes twenty-three seconds

The longest total solar eclipse of the century over land. Here is where to see it, here are the NASA figures — and here is the chart of that minute, computed independently of them.

Twenty-five days ago, on 12 August 2026, a total eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. The next one is 2 August 2027, and it is longer. Totality will last 6 minutes 23 seconds — longer than any other eclipse over land until 2114.

Where you can see it

The path of totality comes in off the Atlantic at Gibraltar, crosses southern Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, then Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia. The longest totality falls in Egypt, about sixty kilometres southeast of Luxor. The path is 258 kilometres wide; outside it the eclipse is partial.

Six minutes is a lot. The 2024 eclipse over North America gave four and a half, and that was called long. The reason is simple: the Moon is near perigee this time and the Earth near aphelion, so the lunar disc is at its largest and the solar disc at its smallest.

What stood in the sky at that minute

The moment of greatest eclipse — 10:07:50 GMT — is not ours to compute: a shadow on the Earth’s surface needs the Moon’s size and terrain, not just longitudes. That figure comes from NASA. Everything after it is our own code, which knows nothing about eclipses and simply computes where the bodies stand at a given instant.

And here is the check that made this worth doing

If NASA is right and our ephemeris is right, then at that instant the Sun and Moon must meet at one point of the sky. They do: the gap is 29 arcseconds, less than a sixtieth of a degree. Two independent computations, neither fitted to the other.

This is the shortest proof on the whole site. The numbers here are not "taken from an astrological table" — they are computed from orbital elements, and you can check them against anything you like.

What astrology reads in this

Sun and Moon sit at 9.9° Leo. Uranus in Gemini at 9.2° makes a 60-degree angle to them with less than a degree to spare; Pluto in Aquarius stands opposite, four degrees off. The ascendant at Luxor in that minute is 10° Scorpio.

What that means is a question astrology answers and astronomy does not. We deliberately write no prophecy here: an eclipse does not cause events, and no peer-reviewed study has shown such a link. The numbers above are real. The interpretation is a separate matter, and it is yours.

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