The white corona of the Sun around the black disc of the Moon during a total solar eclipse

Saros · Luxor · 02 Aug 2027

Six minutes
of night.

Hold your place

The next totality

Every eighteen months or so, the Moon's shadow touches the Earth for a few minutes, somewhere. We make sure you're standing in it.

313Days
16Hours
00Minutes
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until totality begins over Luxor's West Bank — 10:01:53 UTC, 2 August 2027.

Totality at our field
6m 21s
Computed for the West Bank from NASA's eclipse elements.
The Sun's height
82°
Almost overhead. The corona hangs straight up.
A longer one, over land
2114
Nobody on land sees a longer totality for another 87 years.

Luxor West Bank · 2 August 2027 · scroll to run the eclipse

The solar corona during totality
The Sun is a real photograph taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The Moon's path across it is calculated for Luxor.

11:40:04 EEST

First contact.

A notch appears in the Sun's western edge. Around you, nobody has noticed yet.

Around 75% covered

The light turns strange.

Shadows sharpen and colours drain. Under the palms, every gap between the leaves projects a tiny crescent onto the ground.

The last minutes

The shadow is coming.

The temperature drops. Birds go quiet. Out on the desert the Moon's shadow is racing towards you at 2,400 km/h.

13:01:53 EEST

Glasses off.

Baily's beads, the last sunlight shining through valleys on the Moon's edge, flicker and go out.

Totality · remaining

Totality.

6:21

The corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, hangs in a dark blue sky. Every horizon glows like a sunset.

13:08:14 EEST

Glasses on.

The diamond ring. The first bead of sunlight comes back, far brighter than you'd think possible.

Third contact +

And then it's over.

Daylight floods back. 78 minutes of partial eclipse remain, and you'll already be planning the next one.

The Shadow Atlas

Every shadow, to the second.

Pick an eclipse, then tap anywhere on the map. Your browser works out exactly what that spot will see, using the same NASA data and the same method that eclipse chasers plan by.

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    Contact times are computed live from Besselian elements published by NASA (Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC) and checked against NASA's own calculator to within two seconds. They ignore the Moon's mountains and your elevation, so real contacts can differ by a second or two.

    Expeditions

    Three shadows. Three ways to stand in them.

    Small groups, astronomers on every trip, and viewing sites chosen with the maths above. The numbers on each card are computed from NASA's data when the page loads.

    Hot-air balloons at sunrise over Luxor's West Bank, with the Theban hills behind
    Luxor's West Bank at sunrise

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    The Long Shadow

    Luxor, Egypt · 2 August 2027

    Ten nights between the Nile and the Theban hills: balloons at dawn, the Valley of the Kings before the crowds, and a private field on the West Bank for the longest totality anyone on land will see until 2114.

    Totality
    6m 21s
    Begins
    13:01 EEST
    Sun height
    82°
    Nights
    10
    Group
    24 guests
    From
    $9,400
    Reserve this shadow Demo prices, per person
    The white rooftops and cathedral towers of Cádiz above the sea
    Cádiz, Spain

    02 / 03Saros 136

    The Strait

    Cádiz & Tarifa, Spain · 2 August 2027

    The same shadow, 77 minutes earlier, making its first landfall in Europe. Six nights in Cádiz, then a morning on the beaches west of Tarifa with the mountains of Morocco across the water.

    Totality
    4m 39s
    Begins
    10:45 CEST
    Sun height
    38°
    Nights
    6
    Group
    30 guests
    From
    $6,200
    Reserve this shadow Demo prices, per person
    The striped beehive domes of the Bungle Bungle Range seen from the air
    The Bungle Bungle Range, Purnululu

    03 / 03Saros 146

    The Kimberley

    Western Australia · 22 July 2028

    Nine nights in the dry season. Fly over the Bungle Bungle domes, sleep under a sky with no light pollution at all, and watch totality from the Gibb River Road with the Cockburn Range behind you.

    Totality
    4m 59s
    Begins
    10:56 AWST
    Sun height
    53°
    Nights
    9
    Group
    16 guests
    From
    $11,800
    Reserve this shadow Demo prices, per person

    Eclipse day · Luxor

    The longest day of your life.

    Two and three-quarter hours of eclipse and six minutes of totality, with a whole day built around them.

    Hot-air balloons over the fields and villages of Luxor's West Bank

    First light

    Balloons go up before the heat. From six hundred metres, our viewing field is a small rectangle of shade beside the sugar cane.

    13:01

    Totality

    The Sun is 82° up, so everyone looks straight overhead. Then there's a long silence, and then everyone starts talking at once.

    A lantern-lit desert tent with a campfire in front of it at night

    Dinner in camp

    Long tables on the sand and a fire. Nobody talks about anything else.

    Four friends looking up at the Sun through solar eclipse glasses and a filtered camera

    Briefing in the field

    Your astronomer walks you through the four contacts, fits your glasses, and tells you exactly when to take them off.

    Carved columns of Karnak Temple framing a small Moon in a blue sky

    Karnak, in the long light

    The afternoon belongs to Karnak and the 134 columns of its Great Hypostyle Hall.

    The Milky Way arching over a small observatory dome in the desert

    Telescopes out

    There's no Moon tonight (it's new), so the Milky Way comes all the way down to the horizon.

    11:40

    First contact

    Glasses on. For the next 82 minutes the Moon eats the Sun, very slowly and then all at once.

    A felucca sailing on the Nile at Luxor after sunset

    Back on the Nile

    A felucca at dusk, the same Sun going down as if nothing had happened.

    The pylon, statues and obelisk of Luxor Temple lit up at night

    Luxor Temple, lit

    A last walk through the colonnades before a very long day finally ends.

    Before you look

    Look safely. Then look up.

    1. Certified glasses, checked daily

      Every guest gets solar viewers made to the ISO 12312-2 standard, and we check them for scratches and pinholes before first contact.

    2. Off only for totality

      Glasses come off when the last bead disappears and go back on at the first flash of the diamond ring. Your guide calls out both moments.

    3. A filter on every lens

      Cameras, binoculars and telescopes need their own solar filters. Never look through any optics while wearing eclipse glasses.

    This is standard guidance; read NASA's eclipse safety page before any eclipse, wherever you watch it.

    Reserve

    Hold your place in the shadow.

    Choose an expedition and a room, and we'll hold your place for fourteen days while you decide. A boarding pass is issued immediately, with totality already on it.

    This is a design demo. Nothing is booked, nothing is charged, and nothing you type leaves this page.

    Expedition
    Guests
    2

    Estimated total
    $22,400
    2 guests · Superior tent · demo prices
    SAROSSRS-136-0000

    The Long Shadow

    Date
    Totality begins
    Duration
    Guests

    Demo pass: nothing was booked or sent. The calendar file is real, and it holds the exact second totality begins at your viewing site.