# Eclipses 2040

> There are 4 eclipses in 2040: 2 solar and 2 lunar. Partial Solar Eclipse on May 11 in Taurus; Total Lunar Eclipse on May 26 in Sagittarius; Partial Solar Eclipse on November 4 in Scorpio; Total Lunar Eclipse on November 18 in Taurus. They fall on the Taurus-Scorpio and Gemini-Sagittarius axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

Canonical page: https://www.selfgazer.com/sky/eclipses/2040

| Peak (UTC) | Eclipse | Position | Nodes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2040-05-11 03:41 UTC | Partial Solar Eclipse | 21°04' Taurus | North Node in Gemini |
| 2040-05-26 11:44 UTC | Total Lunar Eclipse | 5°49' Sagittarius | North Node in Gemini |
| 2040-11-04 19:07 UTC | Partial Solar Eclipse | 12°58' Scorpio | North Node in Taurus |
| 2040-11-18 19:03 UTC | Total Lunar Eclipse | 27°01' Taurus | North Node in Taurus |

## Questions

### When Are the Eclipses in 2040?

There are 4 eclipses in 2040: 2 solar and 2 lunar. Partial Solar Eclipse on May 11 in Taurus; Total Lunar Eclipse on May 26 in Sagittarius; Partial Solar Eclipse on November 4 in Scorpio; Total Lunar Eclipse on November 18 in Taurus. They fall on the Taurus-Scorpio and Gemini-Sagittarius axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

### When Are the Solar Eclipses in 2040?

Partial Solar Eclipse on May 10, 2040 at 11:41 PM ET (03:41 UTC on May 11), in Taurus; Partial Solar Eclipse on November 4, 2040 at 2:07 PM ET (19:07 UTC), in Scorpio.

### When Are the Lunar Eclipses in 2040?

Total Lunar Eclipse on May 26, 2040 at 7:44 AM ET (11:44 UTC), in Sagittarius; Total Lunar Eclipse on November 18, 2040 at 2:03 PM ET (19:03 UTC), in Taurus.

### What Signs Are the Eclipses in During 2040?

The 2040 eclipses fall on the Taurus-Scorpio, Gemini-Sagittarius axes, following the lunar nodes. Eclipses happen only when a New or Full Moon is close to the North or South Node.

### Where Will the Eclipse Be Visible?

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.

### What Do Eclipses Mean in Astrology?

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.

### Why Do Some Sites List a Different Eclipse Date?

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.

## Method

Positions are geocentric and tropical: apparent longitudes on the true ecliptic and equinox of date, corrected for light time and aberration. They are computed with the open-source Astronomy Engine library (VSOP87 planetary theory) and agree with the Swiss Ephemeris to within about one arcminute. The North Node is the mean node. Times are given in UTC and US Eastern time.

Source: [Selfgazer](https://www.selfgazer.com/sky/eclipses/2040). Free to cite with a link to the source page.