Eclipses 2009

There are 6 eclipses in 2009: 2 solar and 4 lunar. Annular Solar Eclipse on January 26 in Aquarius; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on February 9 in Leo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7 in Capricorn; Total Solar Eclipse on July 22 in Cancer; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 6 in Aquarius; Partial Lunar Eclipse on December 31 in Cancer. They fall on the Leo-Aquarius and Cancer-Capricorn axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

Annular Solar Eclipse on January 26, 2009 at 2:58 AM ET (07:58 UTC), in Aquarius; Total Solar Eclipse on July 21, 2009 at 10:35 PM ET (02:35 UTC on July 22), in Cancer.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on February 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM ET (14:38 UTC), in Leo; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7, 2009 at 5:38 AM ET (09:38 UTC), in Capricorn; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM ET (00:39 UTC on August 6), in Aquarius; Partial Lunar Eclipse on December 31, 2009 at 2:22 PM ET (19:22 UTC), in Cancer.

The 2009 eclipses fall on the Leo-Aquarius, 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.