[PJ-Comix]

The first total solar eclipse in nearly a century...

The author must mean eclipses that have crossed the USA from coast to coast. I know because I saw a total eclipse much less than a century ago in the USA.

While the 2024 total solar eclipse will certainly offer new opportunities for those states missing out on this year's lauded "path of totality," it's the duration of totality that will have eclipse-o-philes counting down the days. For the 2017 eclipse, the duration of totality will last between 20 seconds (over Kansas City, Kansas) to a maximum of two minutes and 40 seconds (over Carbondale, Illinois). The 2024 eclipse by comparison will average just under 4 minutes (4 minutes 27 seconds in Texas) along the path of totality.

Great! I will probably head to San Antonio for that and then drive west to the center of the path of totality. What is the weather like in the San Antonio area for early April?

[Publius]

Wow, lots of black people in this eclipse!

(ducking)

[Mercat]

Carbondale for me. Wow. They get two in a row!

[mazda77]

usually delightful.

[Slyfox]

The weather in San Antonio in April is nice.

[Red Badger]

[DoughtyOne]

Going coast to coast as this one did, it would seem hard to top it.

[cyclotic]

I’m still trying to make my way home from this one and now there’s a better one coming?

My daughter had a filtered camera and actually caught the diamond ring and baily’s heads in one shot.

[DoughtyOne]

Oh wait, it wasn’t total in New York City, never mind...

LOL

[hanamizu]

My location will get roughly twice as much totality—4 min 7 sec vs 2 min 7 sec for yesterday’s, so it will be twice as good assuming no clouds.

[Rebelbase]

Cool, seven years to prepare for another round of media hysteria and be able to buy eclipse glasses before they run out.

[pgkdan]

The first total solar eclipse in nearly a century not only has injected a much-needed sense of awe towards astronomy into our culture, but also has introduced a golden age of eclipse watching.

I'm getting fed up hearing about this 'first in a century' solar eclipse. There was a total eclipse in 1970. I was in sixth grade in NJ and remember it well. We made shadow viewers and watched it from the baseball field.

[Sequoyah101]

That will probably be my last one if I make it to then. We will try to watch from somewhere West of Hot Springs.

[Patriot Babe]

Awesome! 2 Eclipse under President Trump

[skyman]

Next coast to coast 2045. 4+ mins

[JimRed]

Nicknamed "The Great North American Eclipse," 13 states will find themselves squarely within the narrow path of totality.

Will that one be racist too?

[Vinnie]

My sons and I drove down into South Carolina to see the Eclipse. Awesome.
Wish I could see another tomorrow.

2024 eclipse will go over one of my son’s home. Hope I’m alive to see it.

[x]

I remember being a kid with a cardboard box with a hole cut in it trying to see an eclipse and not seeing much of anything and finding out another one was coming along in 2017 or so and thinking, “Wow, that’s an incredibly long time from now.”

[ml/nj]

Only got back to NJ at noon today. I drove to Lexington, KY, on Sunday to give my self the best shot for clear weather. Lexington was pretty much equidistant from three possible viewing sites: Western KY, Central TN, and Eastern TN. I also guessed that it would be best to avoid driving the southern end of I-81. (I.e. from Lexington, VA, south.) I wound up in Eastern, TN, so I did drive north on that part of I-81 on my return trip and traffic was horrendous.

The picture below is one I took.

ML/NJ