Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
| Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | 0.3431 |
| Magnitude | 1.0566 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 268 sec (4 m 28 s) |
| Location | Nazas, Durango, Mexico |
| Coordinates | 25°18′N 104°06′W / 25.3°N 104.1°W |
| Max. width of band | 198 km (123 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| (P1) Partial begin | 15:42:07 |
| (U1) Total begin | 16:38:44 |
| Greatest eclipse | 18:18:29 |
| (U4) Total end | 19:55:29 |
| (P4) Partial end | 20:52:14 |
| References | |
| Saros | 139 (30 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9561 |
A total solar eclipse will take place at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America and dubbed the Great North American Eclipse (also Great American Total Solar Eclipse and Great American Eclipse) by some of the media.[1][2][3] A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. 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 only one day after perigee (perigee on April 7, 2024), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger than usual. With a magnitude of 1.0566, its longest duration of totality will be of four minutes and 28.13 seconds near the town of Nazas, Durango, Mexico (~6 km north), and the nearby city of Torreón, Coahuila.
This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to be visible from Canada since February 26, 1979,[4] the first in Mexico since July 11, 1991,[5] and the first in the U.S. since August 21, 2017. It will be the only total solar eclipse in the 21st century where totality is visible in the three-nation set of Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada.[6]
The next solar eclipse occurs 177 days later.
Visibility[]
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Totality will be visible in a narrow strip in North America, beginning at the Pacific coast, then ascending in a northeasterly direction through Mexico, the United States, and Canada, before ending in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mexico[]
In Mexico, totality will pass through the states of Sinaloa (including Mazatlán), Durango (including Durango and Gómez Palacio) and Coahuila (including Torreón, Matamoros, Monclova, Sabinas, Ciudad Acuña and Piedras Negras).
United States[]
In the United States, totality will be visible through the states of Texas (including parts of San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth and all of Arlington, Dallas, Killeen, Temple, Texarkana, Tyler and Waco), Oklahoma, Arkansas (including Hot Springs, Jonesboro, and Little Rock), Missouri, Illinois (including Carbondale, where it intersects the path of the 2017 eclipse), Kentucky, Indiana (including Bloomington, Evansville, Indianapolis, Muncie, Terre Haute, and Vincennes), Ohio (including Akron, Dayton, Lima, Roundhead, Toledo, Cleveland, Warren, Newton Falls and Austintown), Michigan (extreme southeastern corner of Monroe County), Pennsylvania (including Erie), Upstate New York (including Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse, the Adirondacks, Potsdam, and Plattsburgh), and northern Vermont (including Burlington), New Hampshire, and Maine,[7][8] with the line of totality going almost directly over the state's highest point Mount Katahdin.[citation needed] The largest city entirely in the path will be Dallas, Texas. It will be the second total eclipse visible from the central United States in just 7 years, after the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Totality will pass through the town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, home of Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot upon the Moon.
Events for the 2024 Eclipse within the United States are currently being planned. Two websites have event listings:
- Texas
- Harper, Texas: UBarU Camp and Retreat Center April 6-9, 2024.
- Waco, Texas: A website has been made but events are still being planned, April 8-9, 2024.
- Mineola, Texas: Eclipse, Texas Festival, April 6-8.
- Del Valle, Texas: Live Oak Brewing Company will host an event April 8, 2024, 1 PM EDT to April 9, 2024, 4 AM EDT.
- Arkansas
- De Queen, Arkansas: Sevier County Weekend Festival, Dates still being planned.
- Mena, Arkansas: Blue Zip Line & Farm, April 6-8.
- Hot Springs, Arkansas: Mid-America Science Museum, April 8.
- Clinton, Arkansas: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned.
- Marshall, Arkansas: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned.
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned.
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Henderson, Kentucky: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned.
- Indiana
- Vincennes, Indiana: A website has been made but events are still being planned. Scheduled for April 7.
- French Lick and West Baden, Indiana: A website has been made but events are still being planned. Scheduled for April 8.
- New Castle, Indiana: New Castle Motorsports Park is planning an event April 8, 2024.
- Ohio
- Forest, Ohio: A website has been made but events are still being planned. Scheduled for April 8, 2024.
- Cleveland, Ohio: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is planning the 2024 Total Eclipse of the HeartLAND event April 8, 2024 from 12:00 EDT to 3:55 PM EDT.
- New York
- Buffalo, New York: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned.
- Rochester, New York: A website has been made but events and dates are still being planned with the Rochester Museum & Science Center, the Strasenburgh Planentarium, and the Cumming Nature Center.
- Maine
- Millinocket, Maine: Millinockeclipse is a footrace where runners will start when the eclipse begins and stops when the eclipse ends. Whoever runs the furthest wins. Scheduled for April 8 2:20:53 PM EDT.
- Connecticut
- New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Leitner Family Observatory & Planetarium will host a viewing event on April 8, 2024.
Canada[]
In Canada, the path of totality will pass over parts of Southern Ontario (including Leamington, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Prince Edward County, and Cornwall), parts of southern Quebec (including Montreal, Sherbrooke and the Mont Mégantic Observatory),[9] central New Brunswick (including Fredericton and Miramichi),[10] western Prince Edward Island (including Tignish and Summerside),[11] the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia,[12] and central Newfoundland (including Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor). Then, it will vanish on the eastern Atlantic coast of Newfoundland. (Some of the Canadian cities listed, such as Hamilton and Montreal, are on an edge of the path of totality. Windsor, London, Toronto and Ottawa lie just north of the path of totality, and Moncton lies just south of it.)
Europe[]
The eclipse will be partially seen in Svalbard (Norway), in Iceland, Ireland, west parts of Great Britain, north-west parts of Spain and Portugal, the Azores and Canary Islands.[13]
Related eclipses[]
The path of this eclipse will cross the path of the prior total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with the intersection of the two paths being in southern Illinois, in Makanda, just south of Carbondale.[14] The cities of Benton, Carbondale, Chester, Harrisburg, Marion, and Metropolis in Illinois; Cape Girardeau, Farmington, and Perryville in Missouri, as well as Paducah, Kentucky, will be within a roughly 9,000 square mile intersection of the paths of totality of both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses, therefore earning the distinction of being witness to two total solar eclipses within a span of seven years.
Eclipses of 2024[]
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 25.
- A total solar eclipse on April 8.
- A partial lunar eclipse on September 18.
- An annular solar eclipse on October 2.
Solar eclipses 2022–2025[]
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[15]
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Saros 139[]
It is a part of saros series 139, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 17, 1501. It contains hybrid eclipses on August 11, 1627 through to December 9, 1825 and total eclipses from December 21, 1843 through to March 26, 2601. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 3, 2763. Its eclipses are entabulated in three columns; each one in the same column, every third eclipse, is one exeligmos apart so cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the earth.
The solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 will be the longest total solar eclipse since July 11, 1991 at 6 minutes, 55.02 seconds.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 39 at 7 minutes, 29.22 seconds on July 16, 2186.[16] After that date each duration will decrease, until the series end. This date is the longest solar eclipse computed between 4000BC and 6000AD.[17] Saros series eclipses are during the Moon’s ascending node (a term related to our equator and polar-naming conventions).
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Tritos series[]
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
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In the 22nd century:
- Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111
- Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122
- Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse of June 3, 2133
- Solar saros 150: annular solar eclipse of May 3, 2144
- Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of April 2, 2155
- Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
- Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of January 29, 2177
- Solar saros 154: annular solar eclipse of December 29, 2187
- Solar saros 155: total solar eclipse of November 28, 2198
In the 23rd century:
- Solar saros 156: annular solar eclipse of October 29, 2209
- Solar saros 157: annular solar eclipse of September 27, 2220
- Solar saros 158: total solar eclipse of August 28, 2231
- Solar saros 159: partial solar eclipse of July 28, 2242
- Solar saros 160: partial solar eclipse of June 26, 2253
- Solar saros 161: partial solar eclipse of May 26, 2264
- Solar saros 162: partial solar eclipse of April 26, 2275
- Solar saros 163: partial solar eclipse of March 25, 2286
- Solar saros 164: partial solar eclipse of February 22, 2297
Metonic series[]
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
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Other solar eclipses crossing the United States[]
Notable total and annular solar eclipse crossing the United States from 1900 to 2050:
| Total | Annular | Total | Total | Annular | Annular | Total | Annular | Total | Total | Annular |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jun 8, 1918 |
 Sep 1, 1951 |
 Jun 30, 1954 |
 Feb 26, 1979 |
 May 30, 1984 |
 May 10, 1994 |
 Aug 21, 2017 |
 Oct 14, 2023 |
 Apr 8, 2024 |
 Aug 12, 2045 |
 Jun 11, 2048 |
See also[]
- List of solar eclipses in the 21st century
References[]
- ^ Jamie Carter (April 8, 2019). "Countdown Begins To 'Great North American Eclipse', The Longest, Darkest and Best For 21 Years". Forbes. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Doris Elin Urrutia (August 21, 2019). "It's Not Too Early to Plan for the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024". Space.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Sebastian Kettley (August 23, 2019). "Solar eclipse: Another 'Great American Eclipse' is coming - Get ready for solar spectacle". London: Daily Express / Sunday Express. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Dickinson, Terence (August 3, 2017). "Canada's last solar eclipse in 1979". Maclean's. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico, 1991 (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. 1991. ISBN 9789683617613. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
- ^ "Location of Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024". GreatAmericanEclipse.com. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Gore, Leada (August 22, 2017). "Solar eclipse 2024: Best U.S. cities to see the next total solar eclipse". The Birmingham News. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
- ^ Eliasen, Terry (August 21, 2017). "Next Solar Eclipse Puts New England In Path Of Totality". CBS Boston. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
- ^ "August 21st Solar Eclipse". Astrolab du parc national du Mont-Mégantic. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
Prepare for the next Total Solar Eclipse, on April 8th, 2024. The totality will pass directly in Mont-Mégantic National Park and it's ASTROLab !
- ^ Fowler, Shane (August 23, 2017). "Prime location to view total eclipse in 7 years? New Brunswick". CBC News.
Woodstock and Miramichi will spend the most time in the dark with totality durations of 3:17 and 3:09. Fredericton will experience about 2:21 minutes of totality. Moncton, Saint John and Bathurst will just miss out on experiencing a total technical blackout, but will still see 98 to 99 per cent of the sun disappear.
- ^ Yarr, Kevin (August 23, 2017). "P.E.I. on the path for 2024 total solar eclipse". CBC News. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
Totality will cover the Island from about Summerside and west, with the centre of the path crossing over North Cape.
- ^ "NASA - Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 Apr 08". March 27, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Eclipse Path of Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024". www.timeanddate.com.
- ^ "Total Solar Eclipse 2017 - Path Overlap with the 2024 Eclipse". eclipse2017.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.
- ^ Ten Millennium Catalog of Long Solar Eclipses, -3999 to +6000 (4000 BCE to 6000 CE) Fred Espenak.
External links[]
- Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024
- Besselian Elements for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 Apr 08
- interactive Google map of eclipse path on NASA.gov
- 2024 Total Solar Eclipse - CNN
- Average cloud coverage during total eclipse of 2024-04-08: Canada US Mexico
- NationalEclipse.com An educational site launched for the 2024 eclipse with overviews, maps, city data, events, animations, merchandise, historical information, and other resources.
- Solar Eclipse 2024, 2023, 2021, Eclipse Glasses Information about the 2024 eclipse, including maps, city data, events, animations, and an Interactive Google Map providing custom eclipse information.
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