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Total Solar Eclipse Over Sydney
- A total solar eclipse on Saturday, 22 July 2028 (the "Great Australasian Eclipse") has magnitude 1.056, a maximum duration of 5 min 10 s near Kununurra and a path width of 230 km[1]
- The path runs across the Kimberley, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, through the centre of Sydney (over three minutes of totality), then Queenstown and Dunedin in New Zealand[1]
- It is Sydney's first total eclipse since 26 March 1857 and the last until 3 June 2858; New Zealand's first since 1965 and Dunedin's first since 1163[1]
- Local totality durations include Bourke 4:05 and Dubbo 3:51[1]
- timeanddate notes the path includes Sydney Harbour; NASA hosts an interactive path map with predictions by Fred Espenak[2][3]
- By August 2026 a Dunedin hotel was booked out for an eclipse package, with 35,000 visitors predicted[1]
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- [1]25%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2028en.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 11, 2026· Starts Jul 22, 2028 ✓· 33% of score
No wording about the date found on en.wikipedia.org; treat it as unverified.
- [2]85%Total Solar Eclipse on Jul 22, 2028: Path Map & Times - timeanddate.comtimeanddate.com· Added Sep 14, 2026· 34% of score
Timeanddate.com's own title, "Total Solar Eclipse on Jul 22, 2028: Path Map & Times," from an established eclipse-tracking authority, backs the pin's stored date exactly, though the page itself returned a 403 error and could not be checked for the Sydney totality detail.
- [3]85%NASA GSFC eclipse path map - July 22 2028 total solar eclipseeclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 14, 2026· 33% of score
NASA's own Eclipse Search map tool provides the authoritative path calculation for the 22 July 2028 total solar eclipse, matching the pin's stored date exactly, though the interactive tool's retrieved content did not explicitly mention Sydney by name.
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