Eclipses 1962

There are 5 eclipses in 1962: 2 solar and 3 lunar. Total Solar Eclipse on February 5 in Aquarius; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on February 19 in Virgo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 17 in Capricorn; Annular Solar Eclipse on July 31 in Leo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 15 in Aquarius. They fall on the Leo-Aquarius, Virgo-Pisces and Cancer-Capricorn axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

Total Solar Eclipse on February 4, 1962 at 7:12 PM ET (00:12 UTC on February 5), in Aquarius; Annular Solar Eclipse on July 31, 1962 at 8:24 AM ET (12:24 UTC), in Leo.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on February 19, 1962 at 8:03 AM ET (13:03 UTC), in Virgo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 17, 1962 at 7:54 AM ET (11:54 UTC), in Capricorn; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 15, 1962 at 3:56 PM ET (19:56 UTC), in Aquarius.

The 1962 eclipses fall on the Leo-Aquarius, Virgo-Pisces, Cancer-Capricorn axes, following the lunar nodes. Eclipses happen only when a New or Full Moon is close to the North or South Node.

Times on this page are the global peak of each eclipse. Whether you can see it depends on your location: a solar eclipse is visible only along its path, while a lunar eclipse is visible from the whole night side of Earth.

Astrologers treat eclipses as amplified New and Full Moons that mark turning points, especially for the houses in your birth chart that hold the eclipse signs. Solar eclipses are read as beginnings and lunar eclipses as culminations.

Most astrology sites print a single date without a time zone. An ingress at 10:49 PM in New York is already the next day in London and Sydney, so two correct sources can disagree by a day. Selfgazer gives every time in both US Eastern time and UTC, and the tables switch to your own time zone in the browser.