An Early Morning Eclipse for New Zealand
Weather permitting, New Zealanders will see a partial solar eclipse underway as the Sun rises on the morning of Monday, September 22—although the date of the eclipse is September 21 in UTC time.
For this livestream, we’re excited to be working with new friends: Warren Hurley, Anton Stuck, and the rest of the team at the Dunedin Astronomical Society.
Dunedin is the principal city of New Zealand’s southern region of Otago. For Dunedinites, this partial solar eclipse is a dress rehearsal for an even bigger event in three years’ time: the city is on the center line of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse across Australia and New Zealand on July 22, 2028.
When is the next eclipse in your town?Things We Do Between Eclipses
Before the big eclipse across Australia and New Zealand in July 2028, two more total solar eclipses are coming up: August 2026 (including Spain) and August 2027 (including Spain again, plus up to 6½ minutes of totality in Egypt).
As part of the build-up to this event, mungfali.galihkartiwa07.workers.dev helped organize a special session at the 2025 meeting of the European Astronomical Society, held in Cork, Ireland, earlier this summer.
The aim was to bring together astronomers and researchers from across the globe to discuss ways of involving the public in the wonder and science of solar eclipses. Thank you to all our professional colleagues who came along to share ideas!