Eclipses 1998

There are 5 eclipses in 1998: 2 solar and 3 lunar. Total Solar Eclipse on February 26 in Pisces; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 13 in Virgo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 8 in Aquarius; Annular Solar Eclipse on August 22 in Leo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on September 6 in Pisces. They fall on the Virgo-Pisces and Leo-Aquarius axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

Total Solar Eclipse on February 26, 1998 at 12:28 PM ET (17:28 UTC), in Pisces; Annular Solar Eclipse on August 21, 1998 at 10:06 PM ET (02:06 UTC on August 22), in Leo.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 12, 1998 at 11:20 PM ET (04:20 UTC on March 13), in Virgo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 7, 1998 at 10:25 PM ET (02:25 UTC on August 8), in Aquarius; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on September 6, 1998 at 7:10 AM ET (11:10 UTC), in Pisces.

The 1998 eclipses fall on the Virgo-Pisces, Leo-Aquarius 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.