Total Solar Eclipse of 15 December 2039

Total eclipse · saros 152

15 December 2039

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 1m 51s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.036; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

The order the shadow crosses the path, west → east.

1Antarctica

Totality is confined to Antarctica.

Country sequence from the NASA GSFC catalogue. This is a schematic order, not a geographic map — see methodology.

Computed visibility map: shading shows how much of the Sun is covered at local maximum; the outlined dark band is the path of totality. — Where the 15 December 2039 eclipse is visible — computed from NASA Besselian elements on a fine world grid; gold shading is the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at local maximum, the outlined band is totality. Coastlines: Natural Earth. Click the map to zoom.

The facts, in one place

Date (UT)	15 December 2039
Type	Total
Greatest totality	1m 51s
Magnitude	1.036
Saros series	152
Path countries	Antarctica

Why it matters: Expedition-only: the path never leaves the Antarctic.

This page carries NASA catalogue facts only — no city timings yet. When this eclipse gets close enough to plan, it will get the same treatment as 2027 and 2028: local circumstances computed for the path cities with our validated engine, cloud climatology where a source exists, and honest dashes where one doesn't.

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Source: NASA GSFC eclipse catalogue (SEdecade tables), fetched 2026-08-09.