Solar Eclipse vs Novilune

Will you actually see totality from where you will be standing? Most eclipse apps answer that with a computed guess. This one answers it with the data. Inside Spain, Eclipse publishes the verdict from the Instituto Geografico Nacional for every municipality. That matters more than it sounds. A textbook calculation puts Madrid just inside the path of totality. The IGN puts it outside, at 99.90 percent. An app that says otherwise gets proven wrong in public, on the day. THREE ECLIPSES, ONE APP 2 August 2027 is the big one: totality runs from southern Spain across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, where Luxor gets 6 minutes 23 seconds, the longest over land in decades. 26 January 2028 is an annular eclipse, the ring of fire, and it crosses Spain at sunset with the Sun only a few degrees above the horizon. Both are already in the app. It moves to the next one on its own, with no update needed. WHAT YOU GET - A straight answer for your exact place. Total, annular, partial, or right on the limit. When your spot sits on the edge, the app says so instead of guessing, and names the nearest town that is safely inside. - Every contact time to the second, in the local time of the place you asked about. - Which way to look. A live compass points you at the right patch of sky, with the Sun's exact height above the horizon so you can check today that no building or ridge is in the way. - Times clipped to sunset. Where an eclipse ends below the horizon, showing a time you cannot observe is worse than showing nothing. - Cloud cover for your spot, from Apple Weather, so you know whether to drive. - Alerts before each phase, scheduled on your device. - The full path map, with the centre line and both limits. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Everything except the cloud forecast runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, no connection. On eclipse day, when everyone opens their eclipse app in the same few minutes, that is the difference between an answer and a spinning wheel. NOTHING IS COLLECTED No tracking, no analytics, no account. Your location never leaves your phone. The only network request is Apple's own weather service. SAFETY FIRST Never look at the Sun without certified ISO 12312-2 filters. An annular eclipse has no safe moment at all: even a perfect ring is direct sunlight. The app says so, and never tells you to remove your glasses unless you are genuinely inside totality. Data: Instituto Geografico Nacional (CNIG), NASA/Fred Espenak, GeoNames.

Novilune is a visual almanac of solar eclipses, computed with great precision for any place on Earth — including the total eclipse of 2 August 2027 and the annular eclipse of 26 January 2028. At every new moon, the app draws the Sun and the Moon in the sky of the place you chose, and tells you what you would actually see there: a near miss, a partial eclipse, or a central one, total or annular. THE NEXT ECLIPSES • 6 February 2027 — annular across Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, then the Atlantic and West Africa • 2 August 2027 — total from southern Spain across Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt, with more than six minutes of totality; partial over most of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa • 26 January 2028 — annular from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil to the Guianas, ending at sunset over Portugal and Spain Type the name of your town and Novilune shows you what will happen there: the local time, the share of the Sun covered, the Sun's altitude above the horizon. A zoomable map shows the full extent of the path of totality and of the partial zone around it. A video animation, for every eclipse, follows the Moon's shadow as it sweeps across the Earth — on a globe or on a flat map, as you prefer. WHAT YOU GET • A calendar of 11,900 eclipses and more than 61,000 lunations, from 2000 BC to AD 3000 • Eclipse detection anywhere on Earth: partial, total, annular • An exact diagram of the Sun and the Moon at maximum, with the Moon's path across the sky • The local circumstances: magnitude, share of the Sun covered, altitude of the Sun, local and universal time • A five-millennium timeline and a fine slider, month by month • Two places compared side by side, each at its own local maximum • The eclipse map: where it can be seen on Earth, with the path of totality — an offline map built in, or a detailed zoomable map you can export • The eclipse animation: the shadow's course over the Earth, frame by frame, on a globe or a flat map; shareable as a GIF, with adjustable speed and quality • Image export of every eclipse view • Fully offline: the complete ephemeris is embedded, so the app works in the desert, at sea, or with no network at all • English, French, Spanish and Arabic SERIOUS ASTRONOMY, PLAINLY SHOWN Novilune is not an artist's impression. Every conjunction is computed from the JPL DE441 ephemeris, allowing for the slow drift of the Earth's rotation (ΔT). Ancient eclipses appear where and when they happened, as far as current science can tell. Uncertainty is shown honestly: distant dates carry a visible margin rather than a false precision. That is what makes Novilune unusual well beyond the years to come: for the eclipse of Thales in 585 BC, said to have stopped a battle between Medes and Lydians; for the Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC, which anchors the whole chronology of the ancient Near East; or for any darkening of the Sun recorded in an old chronicle. FREE FOR A YEAR, THEN ONE PURCHASE For the year after you install it, every eclipse of that year is open, with every feature of the app. A one-off purchase, at any time, opens the five millennia. No subscription, no adverts, no account to create. Novilune collects no personal data.