September 7, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse in Kalahari Desert, Botswana

Sep 7, 2025 at 8:11 pm

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Global Event:	Total Lunar Eclipse
Local Type:	Total Lunar Eclipse, in Kalahari Desert
Begins:	Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 6:16 pm
Maximum:	Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 8:11 pm 1.362 Magnitude
Ends:	Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 10:55 pm
Duration:	4 hours, 39 minutes
All times shown on this page are local time.

September 7, 2025 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Kalahari Desert

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Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 5:23 pm CAT

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The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looks like. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below.

Time	Phase	Event	Direction	Altitude
5:28 pm Sun, Sep 7	Not directly visible	Penumbral Eclipse begins Below horizon	101°	-11.2°
6:16 pm Sun, Sep 7	Rising	Moonrise Rising	97°	-0.2°
6:27 pm Sun, Sep 7		Partial Eclipse begins Partial moon eclipse starts - moon is getting red. Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East.	95°	1.9°
7:30 pm Sun, Sep 7		Total Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts - completely red moon.	89°	15.7°
8:11 pm Sun, Sep 7		Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.	85°	24.8°
8:52 pm Sun, Sep 7		Total Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.	80°	33.9°
9:56 pm Sun, Sep 7		Partial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.	71°	47.6°
10:55 pm Sun, Sep 7		Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.	57°	59.5°

The curvature of the shadow's path and the apparent rotation of the Moon's disk is due to the Earth's rotation.

In the past, this day was cloudy 2% of the time (since 2000).

Eclipse Visibility From Kalahari Desert		Visibility Worldwide
	Sep 7, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse	Total Lunar Eclipse
	Feb 17, 2026 Partial Solar Eclipse	Annular Solar Eclipse
	Aug 28, 2026 Partial Lunar Eclipse	Partial Lunar Eclipse
	Feb 6, 2027 Partial Solar Eclipse	Annular Solar Eclipse
	Feb 20–21, 2027 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Note: Click on the date link for details in Kalahari Desert, or the path map image for global details. Currently shown eclipse is highlighted.