Watch Earth eclipse the Sun.

From the Moon, a total lunar eclipse looks like this: Earth goes dark, and every sunrise and sunset on the planet glows around its edge at once. This is the flight plan to get there, together.

Countdown to the first gathering on the Moon · Mission '36 · 7 Aug 2036
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Mission precursors · the lineage

It started on the dance floor.

Eclipse gatherings owe their beginnings to the dance floors of Goa. Then came many transformative gatherings on the ground. A few were pivotal: Solipse in Hungary in '99 and Zambia in '01, Outback Eclipse in South Australia in '02, Oregon Eclipse in '17, Texas Eclipse in '24, which brought 40,000 people under the shadow, and the Artemis Eclipse in April '26, when the Artemis II crew watched 54 minutes of totality from behind the Moon.

The pivotal few, among many.
Phase 01 · Analog · 2026

It continues on the ground.

Mission '26, Iceland Eclipse: 4,200 Seekers from 75 countries on the lava edge of Snæfellsnes. The sky held, the aurora came out, and the first Portal opened beside the glacier.

Fig. 26. Hellissandur. In Iceland, the hidden folk are always asked first.
Phase 01 · Analog · 2027

Every eclipse is a mission.

ATOMIKA in May, inside a Cold War missile silo near Roswell: practice for gathering in a contained space. Then Egypt in August, along the Nile to Luxor and the longest totality on land this century, with Giza after for the Lion's Gate on 8/8.

Somebody at Luxor is watching the sky.
Phase 01 · Analog · 2028

The places start to stay.

An Antarctic Expedition in February proofs everything for extreme conditions, the first balloons carry Seekers to the stratosphere, and from Australasia in July each eclipse site keeps something built to stay.

The Trilogy's three shadows sit under Orion's Belt. The first card is up there.
Phase 02 · Contact · 2029

First footage from space.

On 13 April the asteroid Apophis passes inside the ring of geostationary satellites, bright enough to see, and a spacecraft riding alongside sends pictures down to the gathering. In June the Moon turns red over us.

Phase 03 · Ascent · 2029 to 2032

Higher every year.

Flights keep climbing out of the gatherings: suborbital, across the 100 km line, in '29 and '30; then the first community seats in orbit in '31 and '32.

Phase 04 · Voyage · 2033 to 2035

The first view.

A community crew in lunar orbit flies into Earth's shadow and watches Earth eclipse the Sun for 49 minutes. Two weeks earlier, the Seekers gather under the Alaska eclipse.

Target 14 Apr 2033. If need be, '36.
Phase 05 · Arrival · 2036 to 2038

The first gathering on the Moon.

A small, temporary camp on the surface: 1 hour 35 minutes of totality. On Earth, the community gathers under the red Moon the same night. Both ends of the shadow.

Target 7 Aug 2036. If need be, '40.
Phase 06 · Gathering · 2039 to 2040

A permanent place on the Moon.

Totality on the Antarctic ice in December '39, eleven years after the first expedition. Then a place on the Moon to gather in, eclipse after eclipse, with a dance floor that keeps time at 145 BPM.

Fig. 40. Two eclipses that year, Moon and Earth linked.
Plate I · 2026 to 2045

An 18-Year Seeker Cycle

Tap any stop on the plate to open its card, and pinch or tap + to look closer. The plan runs one Seeker Cycle, roughly 18 years from Iceland's shadow to a mysterious happening in 2045. Targets can slide one eclipse; the sky never moves, so every slip lands on a real one. Some things on the plate are not on the list.

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You are standing on the Moon.Above you hangs Earth, nearly four times as wide as the Sun. Its cities are already lit.

The Sun touches Earth.At home, the Seekers watch the Moon start to darken.

Then the Sun goes out.

And Earth catches fire.A ring of light around the whole planet: every sunrise and every sunset on Earth, at once.

The ground turns red.The stars come out by the thousand. Down there, the cities are lit.

Both ends of one shadow.Under the red Moon, the community is looking up at you.

Then the Sun comes back.An hour and thirty-five minutes later.

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The idea · Both ends of the shadow

One alignment, seen from both sides.

When the Moon slips into Earth's shadow, we see a red Moon. Stand on the Moon at that moment and you see the other side of it: Earth black against the Sun, ringed by every sunrise and sunset on the planet at once. Nobody has watched that from the other end yet.

From Earth: a red Moon over the gathering.
From the Moon: Earth eclipses the Sun.
What we stand for · Five lines, engraved

What we stand for

  1. Aligning our civilization with the cosmos.
  2. Proliferating culture to the stars.
  3. Creating experiential pathways on this planet and beyond.
  4. Community-led space exploration.
  5. Maintaining the humanity within an interplanetary species.
The why · One Seeker Cycle for a shadow

Why go all that way for a shadow?

Because we believe exploring space, and other dimensions, shouldn't be left to legacy institutions. It belongs to everyone who wants a hand in reimagining our reality.

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Open to everyone who wants in.

Until now, the view from out there has belonged to a handful of agencies and the people they choose. The Eclipse Missions open it to anyone willing to build, make or fund the way there: a community crew in lunar orbit, then a community gathering on the Moon.

Fig. 33. The first view, from lunar orbit.
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Limited only by imagination, human and hybrid.

The next places we go shouldn't be run by the rules of the military-industrial complex. We'd rather they were shaped by artists, scientists, builders and dreamers, and by the intelligences that build alongside us, from Orion and its machines to the hidden folk who are always asked first.

The cast: the visitors, the huldufólk, Orion's machines, the machine elves.
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One Seeker Cycle: 18 years and 11 days.

Every eclipse comes back after one Saros: 18 years and 11 days. We call that span the Seeker Cycle, and the missions run one full turn of it, from Iceland's shadow on 12 Aug 2026 to a mysterious happening in 2045. Along the way: a global exercise in coordination, gatherings on every continent linked across the shadow, a decentralized movement to bring beauty beyond Earth and proliferate culture to the stars.

What comes at the close of the cycle, we keep unspoken.

Plate II. The Seeker Cycle: the three Saros corridors of the Trilogy, each eclipse returning 18 years and 11 days on.
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We leave something behind.

From 2028, every eclipse site keeps something built with the people who live there: a place to return to for years, in remembrance of the totality shared on it. The Portal, our month-long field lab in Iceland, travels with us and ends up permanent on the Moon.

Fig. 28. Australasia, the first place built to stay.
Portals · Every totality is a doorway

Other universes, linked through the shadow.

Every totality opens onto a universe on another timeline, and they all meet in the same shadow. A portal stays open only as long as totality lasts. All four are hidden on the plate above, and inside each one, something answers when you tap it.

Universe 26-A · via IcelandThe floors never closed. A timeline where the first eclipse festivals never stopped dancing.
Universe 27-B · via LuxorTime runs the other way. Somebody in the frieze knows how to get in.
Universe 28-C · via the OutbackThe close Moon. Every totality lasts an hour. Stay in the shadow long enough and it lets you in.
Universe 36-D · via the MoonThe visitors stayed. They are waiting at the camp on the Moon, for anyone they have met before.

There is one more, on the Moon, that leads somewhere else entirely. We won't say where.

The Seekers · The community is the mission

Contribute that of which you have in abundance.

Every mission needs three things: people to build it, people to make it, and people to fund it. Seekers keep a hand in all three and give the most where they have the most. A Seeker isn't inherently human: Orion, the robots that build ahead of us, and whoever else is watching can all be Seekers.

Physical

Build it

Crew, camps, caring for a place. Stand under the shadow, build what stays, and look after it between eclipses.

Creative

Make it

Art, music, ceremony, film. The culture of the missions, and what travels with us to the stars.

Economic

Fund it

Tickets, backing, partners. Fund a mission, a place that stays, or a seat for someone who couldn't otherwise go.

Give most where you have abundance. Never drop to zero in the other two.

Seekers

The community

Everyone starts here. Keep a hand in all three, earn each mission's patch, and get first access to every gathering and flight.

Voyagers

On the journeys

Seekers with a sustained record across missions. They travel with us, and fly first as the high-altitude and orbital seats open.

Crew

Into the shadow

Chosen from Voyagers for the missions beyond Earth, on the whole record across building, making and funding, not ability to pay alone.

Tell us how far you want to go.

We'll send mission news, gathering reveals and first access to tickets and flights as each phase opens. We'll never share your details.

Signups for the gatherings run through each event's own site. This list is for the program.

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Mission patches · Tap a patch for its card

Earn the patch.

Analog '26Iceland, under the first shadow.
Analog '27Luxor, the longest totality on land.
Analog '28Australasia, the first place built to stay.
Contact '29Apophis passes and the Moon turns red.
Ascent '30The horizon curves under the first flights.
Voyage '33Earth eclipses the Sun from lunar orbit.
Arrival '36The first gathering on the surface.
Gathering '40A permanent place on the Moon.
The deck · Every stop has a card

Every mission, card by card.

Questions

Before you ask.

Is this real?

The eclipses are. Every date here comes from NASA's eclipse tables. The gatherings on Earth are IMXP's events, starting with Iceland Eclipse in 2026. The flights and the Moon depend on commercial spaceflight being built now; we plan around it and open each phase as it becomes possible. If the technology needs more time, a mission moves to the next eclipse: the first view from '33 to '36, the first gathering on the Moon from '36 to '40.

Can I actually go to the Moon with you?

That's the goal. Mission '33 flies a community crew in lunar orbit for the first view. Mission '36 is the first gathering on the Moon, a small temporary camp on the surface. By Mission '40 there's permanent infrastructure there, so more of us can go. Everyone starts as a Seeker; Crew is chosen from the community.

What is the Eclipse Trilogy?

Iceland '26, Egypt '27 and Australasia '28: three total eclipses in three years, told as three chapters of one gathering, Initiation, Activation and Ascension. They anchor the Analog phase, alongside ATOMIKA, the Antarctic Expedition and the first balloon flights, and each keeps its own name and site.

What will it cost?

Prices for flights beyond Earth orbit aren't public yet. The gatherings on Earth are priced like IMXP's other events. Seekers hear about every price and opening first.

Why watch from the Moon?

Because from there, a total lunar eclipse becomes Earth eclipsing the Sun. Earth turns black and its atmosphere lights up as a ring: every sunrise and sunset at once. It's the clearest view there is of how thin and shared our air is.

Is that ring of light real?

Yes. Surveyor 3 photographed it from the Moon in 1967, and the Blue Ghost lander caught Earth covering the Sun from the lunar surface in March 2025, with red light falling on the ground around it. Our plates are drawn on that physics.

What do you leave behind?

From 2028 on, each eclipse location is a chance to build semi-permanent or permanent infrastructure with the local community: something that stays useful after we leave, and a place people can come back to for years in remembrance of the totality they shared there. On the Moon, Mission '40 is the same idea.

Who is behind it?

IMXP, the team behind Iceland Eclipse and the gatherings that follow. Our founder created Texas Eclipse in 2024, which brought 40,000 people under the shadow.