How Often Are Solar & Lunar Eclipses?
How Often Are Solar & Lunar Eclipses? Eclipses of the sun and moon are not rare. There are between 4 and 7 eclipses each year. There were 4 solar eclipses and 3 lunar eclipses in 1982. This list has solar and lunar eclipses from 1999 to 2020.
From time to time these eclipses capture media attention almost always when the eclipse is "total". Besides the obvious world of the five senses, there's a pretty good case to be made that eclipses also effect people in other ways, because there are most likely some very powerful unseen energies running between these huge celestial bodies (Sun, Earth, Moon).It's been said that big changes happen for the humans on Earth during times of eclipses - There certainly is some correlation between eclipse events and historical events, but that's another article. We're just dealing with the timing of eclipses during the Eclipse Year.
Eclipse Year, the Line of Nodes align with the Sun every 346.6 days. This is called the "Eclipse Year".
But, it must be a Full or New Moon when the nodes line up to have an eclipse. This happens only very rarely.
From a given location on the Earth you see a Total Lunar Eclipse every 3 years (or so), and a Total Solar Eclipse every 360 years.
In most cases, when one eclipse happens a second eclipse will happen in about two weeks. Sometimes there is a third eclipse two weeks after that. Sometimes there are two solar eclipses in a row, sometimes there are two lunar eclipses in a row, except they are months apart.
It might be interesting to observe the world around you with a different eye during eclipses. You might notice a bunch of subtle and not-so-subtle changes happening in your world. A lot of them just might be the effect of eclipses
| Year | No: | Jan to Mar | Apr to Jun | Jul to Sep | Oct to Dec | |
| 1999 | 4 | Lunar: Jan 31 Solar: Feb 16 |
Lunar: Jul 28 Solar: August 11 |
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| 2000 | 6 | Lunar: Jan 21 Solar: Feb 21 |
Solar: Jul 1 Lunar: Jul 16 Solar: July 31 |
Solar: Dec 25 | ||
| 2001 | 5 | Lunar: Jan 9 | Solar: June 21 Lunar: July 5 |
Solar: Dec 14 Lunar: Dec30 |
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| 2002 | 5 | Lunar: May 26 Solar: June 10-11 Lunar: June 24 |
Lunar: Nov 19-20 Solar: Dec 4 |
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| 2003 | 4 | Lunar: May 16 Solar: May 31 |
Lunar: Nov 8-9 Solar: Nov 23-24 |
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| 2004 | 4 | Solar: April 19 Lunar: May 4 |
Solar: Oct 14 Lunar: Oct 28 |
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| 2005 | 4 | Solar: April 8 Lunar: April 24 |
Solar: Oct 3 Lunar: Oct 17 |
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| 2006 | 4 | Lunar: Mar 14-15 Solar: Mar 29 |
Lunar: Sept 7 Solar: September 22 |
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| 2007 | 4 | Lunar: Mar 3-4 Solar: March 19 |
Lunar: Aug 28 Solar: Sept 11 |
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| 2008 | 4 | Solar: Feb 7 Lunar: Feb 21 |
Solar: Aug 1 Lunar: Aug 16 |
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| 2009 | 6 | Solar: Jan 26 Lunar: Feb 9 |
Lunar: Jul 7 Solar: Jul 21-22 Lunar: Aug 5-6 |
Lunar: Dec 31 | ||
| 2010 | 4 | Solar: Jan 15 | Lunar: Jun 26 Solar: July 11 |
Lunar: Dec 21 | ||
| 2011 | 6 | Solar: Jan 4 | Solar: June 1 Lunar: June 15 Solar: July 1 |
Solar: Nov 25 Lunar: Dec 10 |
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| 2012 | 4 | Solar: May 20 Lunar: June |
Solar: Nov 13 Lunar: Nov 28 |
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| 2013 | 5 | Lunar: April 25 Solar: May 10 Lunar: May 25 |
Lunar: Oct 18 Solar: Nox 3 |
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| 2014 | 4 | Lunar: April 15 Solar: April 29 |
Lunar: Oct 8 Solar: Oct 23 |
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| 2015 | 4 | Solar: March 20 | Lunar: April 4 | Solar: Sept 13 Lunar: Sept 28 |
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| 2016 | 4 | Solar: March 9 Lunar: March 23 |
Solar: Sept 1 Lunar: Sept 16 |
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| 2017 | 4 | Lunar: Feb 11 Solar: Feb 26 |
Lunar: Aug 27 Solar: Aug 21 |
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| 2018 | 5 | Lunar: Jan 31 Solar: Feb 15 |
Solar: July 18 Lunar: July 27 Solar: Aug 11 |
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| 2019 | 5 | Solar: Jan 6 Lunar: Jan 21 |
Solar: July 2 Lunar: July 16 |
Solar: Dec 26 | ||
| 2020 | 6 | Lunar: Jan 10 | Lunar: June 5 Solar: June 21 Lunar: July 5 |
Lunar: Nov 30 Solar: Dec 14 |
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