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mabfanOn this day exactly ten years from now, a total solar eclipse will be visible over much of the continental United States. The eclipse's path will start in the Pacific ocean, and will pass through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, the northeast corner of Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, northeast Georgia, and the Carolinas. Millions of people will be able to see the eclipse, assuming the weather holds out.
The duration of the eclipse will be about two and a half minutes at maximum, at the center line. The width of visibility will be about 115 km.
This will be the first total eclipse to pass over any part of the United States since 1991, when a total eclipse passed over Hawaii. Plan your trip now! (Ten years into the future is not as far out as you think...)
References:
USA Total Solar Eclipse 2017, everything you need to know to plan to see the eclipse, including links to details maps, courtesy of Dan McGlaun
Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse: August 21 2017 (with some excellent maps)
Path of Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21 (a NASA website with coordinates, which links to a map of the globe with the eclipse's path)
Wikipedia: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
The duration of the eclipse will be about two and a half minutes at maximum, at the center line. The width of visibility will be about 115 km.
This will be the first total eclipse to pass over any part of the United States since 1991, when a total eclipse passed over Hawaii. Plan your trip now! (Ten years into the future is not as far out as you think...)
References:
USA Total Solar Eclipse 2017, everything you need to know to plan to see the eclipse, including links to details maps, courtesy of Dan McGlaun
Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse: August 21 2017 (with some excellent maps)
Path of Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21 (a NASA website with coordinates, which links to a map of the globe with the eclipse's path)
Wikipedia: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
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Date: 2007-08-21 06:27 pm (UTC)YES! 47 years later, I'll finally get to see a total solar eclipse!
Some may recall the total solar eclipse of March 1970, which basically has a totality path up the east coast of the US. I was then 9, a major space nut, and living around 75 miles from the totality zone. My father promised to take me, but, as I didn't know at the time, he'd been diagnosed with cancer the previous summer and the morning of eclipse day turned out to be one of his bad days. So he couldn't take me, and my mother wouldn't because she wanted to take care of him. So I only got to see a near total eclipse via pinhole devices and the like and what was shown on television.
Assuming predictions of decent weather, I'll almost have to go to the Carolinas to view this one.