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A solar eclipse happens at new Moon when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. It is total where the Moon's dark inner shadow (umbra) touches the Earth, annular where the Moon is too far away to cover the Sun and leaves a bright ring, and partial everywhere else under the outer shadow (penumbra). A lunar eclipse happens at full Moon when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow; it can be seen from wherever the Moon is above the horizon.
Peak is the moment of greatest eclipse. For total and annular solar eclipses the peak point is where the axis of the Moon's shadow passes closest to Earth's centre; the line on the map is the path of that axis across the Earth (the centre line), not the full width of the path. For partial solar eclipses there is no such point, so none is given. Rare hybrid eclipses, which are annular along part of the path and total along the rest, are listed by the type seen at the peak. Contacts are the moments the eclipse begins (first contact), totality or annularity starts and ends (second and third), and the eclipse ends (fourth). For lunar eclipses P1/P4 are the start and end of the penumbral phase, U1/U4 of the partial phase and U2/U3 of totality.
Everything is computed in your browser with the astronomy-engine library (Don Cross, MIT licence), which models the Sun, the Moon and the shadows geometrically. It agrees with NASA's eclipse predictions (Fred Espenak) to within a few seconds for peak times and about 0.1° for peak positions, for example the total solar eclipses of 12 August 2026 and 2 August 2027 and the lunar eclipses of 3 March and 28 August 2026. Local contact times are usually good to within a minute. Mountains, the exact horizon and the value of ΔT (Earth's irregular rotation) far in the past or future can shift what you see. Never look at the Sun without proper eclipse glasses or a filter, except during totality.