{"release":{"id":"DR1","released_on":"2026-08-21","doi":null,"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/releases#dr1"},"meta":{"from":"2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","to":"2026-12-31T00:00:00.000Z","count":4,"limit":500,"kinds":["eclipse"],"close_approaches":{"source":"NASA/JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies","fetched":"2026-08-25","covers_through":"2028-03-27","max_distance_ld":20}},"attribution":"Data from SpaceCatalog.org. Individual records carry their source and license in `source`; attribution is required for CC-BY and CC-BY-SA rows.","events":[{"id":"eclipse-solar-2026-02-17","kind":"eclipse","time":"2026-02-17T12:11:53.939Z","title":"Annular solar eclipse","description":"The Moon passes centrally across the Sun but is too far from Earth to cover it, so at greatest eclipse — over 64.7°S, 86.7°E — a ring of Sun stays visible all the way round it, with 93% of the disc covered. It never gets dark and it is never safe to look at without a certified solar filter.","summary":"A ring of Sun stays visible around the Moon, greatest over 64.7°S, 86.7°E.","objects":["sun","moon"],"position":{"ra_deg":330.624223933343,"dec_deg":-12.00469752345557},"circumstances":{"obscuration":0.927,"greatest_at":{"lat_deg":-64.7,"lon_deg":86.7}},"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-02"},{"id":"eclipse-lunar-2026-03-03","kind":"eclipse","time":"2026-03-03T11:33:40.289Z","title":"Total lunar eclipse","description":"The full Moon passes entirely into Earth's shadow and stays there for about 59 minutes. It does not go dark: the only light reaching it has been bent through the whole ring of Earth's sunrises and sunsets at once, which is why a totally eclipsed Moon turns copper red. Visible, without any equipment, from the half of the planet where the Moon is up.","summary":"The Moon spends about 59 minutes fully inside Earth's shadow, turning copper red.","objects":["moon","earth"],"position":{"ra_deg":163.72056728106344,"dec_deg":6.541299420109046},"circumstances":{"obscuration":1,"duration_min":59},"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-03"},{"id":"eclipse-solar-2026-08-12","kind":"eclipse","time":"2026-08-12T17:45:46.794Z","title":"Total solar eclipse","description":"The Moon covers the Sun completely along a narrow track across the Earth, and takes a bite out of it for a wide margin either side. Greatest eclipse falls over 65.2°N, 25.2°W — being on that track is the whole difference between a total eclipse and a partial one, and this page does not know where you are standing. Never look at any phase of it without a certified solar filter.","summary":"The Moon blocks the Sun completely along a narrow track, greatest over 65.2°N, 25.2°W.","objects":["sun","moon"],"position":{"ra_deg":142.07828589524647,"dec_deg":14.918018298705077},"circumstances":{"obscuration":1,"greatest_at":{"lat_deg":65.2,"lon_deg":-25.2}},"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-08"},{"id":"eclipse-lunar-2026-08-28","kind":"eclipse","time":"2026-08-28T04:12:49.076Z","title":"Partial lunar eclipse","description":"Earth's shadow crosses 97% of the Moon's disc at the deepest point, over about 199 minutes — a clean curved bite out of a full moon, obvious to the naked eye and to a phone camera. Visible from wherever the Moon is above the horizon at the time.","summary":"Earth's shadow takes a 97% bite out of the full Moon.","objects":["moon","earth"],"position":{"ra_deg":336.17202970076005,"dec_deg":-9.436827698277389},"circumstances":{"obscuration":0.966,"duration_min":199},"url":"https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-08"}]}