A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Saturday, 22 July 2028,[1] with a magnitude of 1.056.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness.

Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

Occurring about 1.8 days before perigee (on 23 July 2028, at 23:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.

[2] The central line of the path of the eclipse will cross the Australian continent from the Kimberley region in the north-west and continue in a south-easterly direction through Western Australia, the Northern Territory, south-west Queensland and New South Wales, close to the towns of Wyndham, Kununurra, Tennant Creek, Birdsville, Bourke and Dubbo, and continuing on through the centre of Sydney, where the eclipse will have a duration of over three minutes.

[citation needed] This is the first time Sydney will experience a total solar eclipse since 26 March 1857 and will be the last until 3 June 2858.

Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee).