On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the northern two thirds of Africa, Europe, and central Asia.



This web site has been established for the purpose of providing detailed predictions, maps, figures and information about this important event. The material here is adapted from the NASA Technical Publication "Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29" (NASA/TP-2004-212762). The document was published in 2004 November and is now available for distribution in hard copy and as either a low resolution (5 MB) or high resolution (27 MB) PDF file . It is part of NASA's official eclipse bulletin publication series. Instructions and a form for ordering a hard copy of this publication can be found at: Order Form for NASA Eclipse Bulletins.

NASA Goddard's Solar Data Analysis Center has made the complete 2006 total eclipse bulletin available online as a series of separate web pages, figures and tables. The link to the main page is: Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29 .

Additional and supplemental material for the 2006 eclipse will be published here in the coming months.