Chasing Eclipses with timeanddate

The 2nd Eclipse Season of 2022

Coming up this eclipse season:

• Partial solar eclipse: October 25
• Total lunar eclipse: November 7–8

For the partial solar eclipse, we will be dispatching our mobile observatory to the northern edge of Europe. The exact location will be decided last minute, considering clear skies and optimum eclipse magnitude. It will be visible from most of Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, and western parts of Asia—you can also catch our LIVE broadcast of the event.

Two weeks later, we fly to Roswell, New Mexico in the US to stream the total lunar eclipse. The Blood Moon can be seen from Asia, Australia, North America, parts of northern and eastern Europe, and most of South America.

Catch the eclipse LIVE!

Total Lunar Eclipse: May 2022

In May 2022, our mobile observatory was finally on the road (and plane) again after a long travel hiatus. This time, we went back to Ouarzazate, Morocco, to live stream the total lunar eclipse.

A Traveling Telescope

Although the setup of a mobile observatory is a lot simpler than one might think, there is quite an extensive list of items needed to make sure the images make it all the way to our viewers, including:

• a telescope or two,
• a camera to capture the telescope images,
• a couple of computers with the right software,
• networking equipment,
• a good internet connection,
• a huge number of cables and batteries, and,
• astronomy enthusiasts willing to travel across oceans.

Solar and lunar eclipses worldwide

Lunar Eclipse in November 2021

We streamed the almost total lunar eclipse on November 18—19, 2021. Covid restrictions kept us from traveling to North America with our mobile observatory, but with the help of our stellar (or lunar, you might say) streaming partners, we still streamed it LIVE.

Lunar and Solar Eclipses in May and June 2021

Covid restrictions kept our mobile observatories within Norway’s borders for the annular solar eclipse on June 10, 2021. After monitoring the weather to decide at the last minute where to travel, we ended up with one observatory going to Kautokeino and one to Oslo. See the eclipsed Sun in our annular solar eclipse show.

Unfortunately, the pandemic completely blocked our plans to take the mobile observatory on the road for the total lunar eclipse on May 26. Luckily, with the help of our trusty streaming partners, we streamed the eclipse LIVE. See the Blood Moon in the total lunar eclipse show.

Eclipses in November and December 2020

Covid-19 travel restrictions stopped our plan to take the mobile observatory to Argentina for the total solar eclipse on December 14, 2020. We still streamed the total solar eclipse with our streaming partners’ help.

As a special bonus show, we also live-streamed the penumbral lunar eclipse on November 29/30, 2020.

Annular Solar Eclipse 2020

Our plans to travel to Oman to capture the annular solar eclipse on June 21 were thwarted by Covid-19 travel restrictions. Despite this, several partners on location helped us broadcast a spectacular live stream of the eclipse straight from our studio in Stavanger, Norway.

Three Eclipses and a Transit in 2019

In 2019, timeanddate’s mobile observatory was on the road for a total lunar eclipse, a total solar eclipse, a partial lunar eclipse, and a transit of Mercury.

• On November 11, 2019, we traveled to Ålesund, Norway, to capture Mercury moving across the Sun.
• In the night between July 16 and 17, 2019, we streamed the partial lunar eclipse from Šibenik, Croatia.
• A few weeks before that, we went to San José de Jáchal, Argentina, to capture the July 2, 2019 total solar eclipse.
• In January 2019, we traveled to Ouarzazate, Morocco, for the January 20 / 21, 2019 total lunar eclipse.

Lunar Eclipse in Greece 2018

We first took the mobile observatory on the road in 2018, capturing the July 27, 2018 total lunar eclipse from Santorini, Greece.