{{Infobox solar eclipse|YYYYMonDD}}

Here, YYYY is the year, Mon is the three letter abbreviation for the month, and DD is the two digit abbreviation for the day. For example, 2015Mar20 for March 20, 2015.

A given value of YYYYMonDD automatically displays information from a matching date in one of the data pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Solar eclipse/db. Module:Solar eclipse/db/200 is for 2001–2050. Other template parameters including image may be ignored with no way to override the data page.

{{Infobox solar eclipse|YYYYMonDD
|date             = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
|image            = 
|caption          = 
|map              = 
|map_caption      = 
|type_ref         = 
|nature           = 
|gamma            = 
|magnitude        = 
|saros            = 
|saros_sequence   = 
|saros_total      = 
|max_eclipse_ref  = 
|duration         = 
|location         = 
|coords           = <!-- {{Coord|NNNNN|NNNNN|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} -->
|max_width        = <!-- {{Convert|NNNNN|km|abbr=on}} -->
|times_ref        = 
|start_partial    = 
|start_total      = 
|start_central    = 
|greatest_eclipse = 
|end_central      = 
|end_total        = 
|end_partial      = 
}}

nature should be "Total", "Annular", "Hybrid" or "Partial" (without speechmarks).

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Dates will only be included if you use {{Start date}} or {{End date}} (use the former for single dates, but do not use any of these if the date is before 1583 CE). {{End date}} requires that a time be specified, but display of this time may be suppressed by adding |nodate=yes to the end.

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

hCalendar uses HTML classes including:

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.
Also, when giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.