Overview
- The eclipse begins around 4:33–4:34 CET and reaches its maximum at about 6:12–6:13 CET on Friday morning, 28 August, with roughly 93 percent of the Moon entering Earth’s umbra.
- Because the maximum coincides with the Moon setting and daylight arriving, much of the deepest shading will be invisible from many places in Germany and eastern Europe.
- Observers should get up early and choose westward, elevated sites with an unobstructed horizon to have the best chance of seeing the peak; binoculars or a small telescope can help but no protective glasses are needed.
- Weather, low‑horizon haze and early morning fog are the main practical limits to visibility, and western regions will have more viewing time than eastern regions because sunrise and moonset occur later there.
- The event follows this month’s 12 August partial solar eclipse and sits inside a busy run of sky events; interest in future eclipses is already driving heavy tourist demand and surging accommodation prices for the 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse in southern Spain.