Viewpoint
Atalaya de Riba de Saelices
40.9397, -2.2922 · 1044 m · Aragon
Photo: SeRgEY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Eclipse 12 Aug 2026
Score 78/ 100
Full totality visible
What the contact points (C1-C4) mean
A solar eclipse is described by four key moments, the contact points between the discs of the Sun and the Moon:
- C1First contact: the Moon touches the edge of the Sun and the partial eclipse begins.
- C2Second contact: the Moon fully covers the Sun and totality begins.
- C3Third contact: the Sun reappears and totality ends.
- C4Fourth contact: the Moon leaves the Sun's disc and the eclipse ends.
Where the eclipse is only partial, the Moon never fully covers the Sun: only C1 and C4 occur, with no totality in between.
Eclipse 2 Aug 2027
Score 50/ 100
Eclipse visible
The Sun will be 37-41° high, so terrain almost never blocks it: what decides is being inside the path, not the viewpoint's horizon.
Eclipse 26 Jan 2028
Score 25/ 100
Marginal visibility — depends on fine horizon
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Description
Este torreón árabe del siglo IX d.C custodiaba el asentamiento bereber situado en la misma ladera y habitado durante 300 años, hasta que el desplazamiento progresivo de la población a la actual Riba de Saelices derivó en su abandono.
Practical info
- Elevation
- 1044 m
- Accessibility
- No data
- Parking
- No data
- Coordinates
- 40.9397, -2.2922
Eclipse phases
Times in CEST local time
Oriented as seen with the naked eye, zenith up (official ephemerides usually draw it with celestial north up, rotated with respect to this).
Phases shown in red aren't observable: they happen while the Sun is below the horizon.
Location
- Latitude
- 40.9397° N
- Longitude
- 2.2922° W
- Elevation
- 1044 m
Eclipse phases
- Eclipse begins
- 19:35:55
- Totality begins
- 20:30:25
- Maximum
- 20:31:14
- Totality ends
- 20:32:00
- Eclipse ends
- 21:23:08
- Sunset (flat horizon)
- 21:11:27
Duration
- Eclipse
- 1h 47m 14s
- Totality
- 1m 34s
Values at maximum
- Obscuration
- 100%
- Sun altitude
- +6.6°
- Sun azimuth
- 284.0°
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