On September 7 and 8, 2025, a total lunar eclipse will take place (16th and 17th of Bhadra, 1947 Saka Era). Everywhere in India will be able to see the eclipse. The Moon will enter the penumbra in the late evening of September 7, 2025, and remain there until the early hours of September 8, 2025, according to the Positional Astronomical Centre, Kolkata, of the IMD under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The area that includes sections of Antarctica, the western Pacific Ocean, Australasia, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Europe, and the eastern Atlantic Ocean will be able to see the eclipse in addition to India.
All stages of the eclipse, including totality, will be visible across the whole Indian subcontinent. The eclipse is scheduled to reach totality at 11 PM on the evening of September 7, 2025. On September 8, 2025, it will complete its totality at 12.23 AM, just beyond midnight. The eclipse has a magnitude of 1.368 and lasts for three hours and thirty minutes. The eclipse will be in totality for one hour and twenty-three minutes.
This celestial event will be followed by the next complete moon eclipse, which will be seen from India on March 3, 2026. The last time a lunar eclipse could be seen from India occurred on October 28, 2023. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the entire Moon passes behind the Earth’s umbral shadow, whereas a partial lunar eclipse only occurs when a segment of the Moon does.
