Astronomy · Science outreach

Eclipse Simulators

Four interactive solar and lunar eclipse simulators. True-to-scale celestial mechanics built on NASA/JPL, ESA, NOAA and NASA Eclipse Web Site data.

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Eclipse Viewer

A solar eclipse viewer with an interactive map: pick any point on Earth (or use your own location) and watch a realistic simulation of the sky during the eclipse — corona, Baily's beads, chromosphere, lunar shadow and more — with local circumstances, timings and the path of totality on the map.

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Eclipse 3D Simulator

A true-to-scale 3D orbital simulation of the Sun–Earth–Moon system with automatic detection of solar and lunar eclipses. Keplerian orbits, apsidal and nodal precession, geometrically accurate shadow cones.

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Lunar Eclipse 3D Simulator

A simulator dedicated to lunar eclipses with physical modelling of Earth's atmospheric scattering: refraction, Rayleigh scattering and ozone absorption producing the "Blood Moon" and the ozone fringe during totality.

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Saros Clock

A 2D animation of how eclipses form through the year: watch the Saros cycle emerge over time from the regression of the lunar nodes and the eclipse limits.

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