Viewpoint
Um vale em forma de "U"
40.3251, -7.5785 · 1460 m · Extremadura
Eclipse 12 Aug 2026
Score 29/ 100
Blocked by terrain
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 24/ 100
Blocked by terrain
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Practical info
- Elevation
- 1460 m
- Accessibility
- No data
- Parking
- No data
- Coordinates
- 40.3251, -7.5785
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).
Location
- Latitude
- 40.3251° N
- Longitude
- 7.5785° W
- Elevation
- 1460 m
Eclipse phases
- Eclipse begins
- 19:36:37
- Maximum
- 20:33:18
- Eclipse ends
- 21:26:15
- Sunset (flat horizon)
- 21:31:16
Duration
- Eclipse
- 1h 49m 38s
Values at maximum
- Obscuration
- 98%
- Sun altitude
- +10.0°
- Sun azimuth
- 281.1°
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Data derived from OpenStreetMap (view source).