Posted on 01/26/2024 2:17:01 PM PST by Texan4Life
In my Tim Allen voice:
The next total solar eclipse to visit North America will be April 8, 2024. The duration of totality will be up to 4 minutes and 27 seconds, almost double that of The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017. The 2017 total solar eclipse was witnessed by about 20 million people from Oregon to South Carolina, and the upcoming 2024 Great American Eclipse is sure to be witnessed by many millions more.
(Excerpt) Read more at greatamericaneclipse.com ...
Saw the one in 2017 in Kentucky.
I rented a 19-bed colonial on an island in Lake Erie for the event. Putin Bay Ohio. Big family event. Might be cloudy but there’s a lot of bars.
We’re setting up several audio recording stations to record changes in vocalizations of bird calls / songs for the focal species we study (Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow). I doubt we’ll capture any Tree Swallow audio as they will not yet be vocalizing at that time in the month. But Eastern Bluebird will have a few early nest builders and egg layers at that time.
Although not focal species, American Robin, Song Sparrow, and Northern Cardinal vocalizations should change in reaction to the decrease and subsequent increase in sunlight.
During the partial eclipse, the Sun is as bright as usual. During totality, no glasses are needed at all!
This is the best map for solar eclipse - interactive google map, one can zoom in on out. You can click on spot and it will show all the eclipse data in that locality!
Tines are in UUT (Universal time, Greenwich time). It is kind of noonish or afternoon in the USA.
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html
Make sure you get to Total eclipse area. Only then you can see the corona and all the effects. Absolutely different from partial eclipse!
Try to get closer to the center of the eclipse path.
At the edges, the totality could only last like few seconds.
The best place to see the eclipse is the park in Eagle Pass, TX where there is the barbed wire conflict between FEDS and Texans.
The illegals will get the best view!
I might go up to Vermont...but April features many bad days up there.
Heh, if I step out the door for this one, we get almost 3 minutes of totality (weather permitting). In 2017 I stepped out my door and got... almost 3 minutes of totality.
If I go to a property my brother owns for this one there will be 4+ minutes of totality. Ditto for a favorite fishing spot, but I have a feeling that will be mobbed. Probably would have to claim a few square feet days in advance...
Yes, I understand that the western states were hampered by bad weather. We were really fortunate in the Winnipeg area.
Good map... I see the total eclipse line tracks just a bit north of the line from Cleveland to Buffalo i.e. I-90.
It's just as bright during totality, too, but the moon's in the way. :-)
True. During the 2017 eclipse, one of my brothers was living just outside the path of totality, where the eclipse was something like 90%. He'd only have had to drive maybe 100 miles to be well within the zone of totality, but he didn't want to bother. My wife and I drove more than 1,000 miles each way to see the total eclipse, and it was well worth it.
Looks like I will get 85%, which means total cloud cover, just like in 2017.
Well, yes :-).
During the eclipse, all kind of idiots get crazy about eye damage and protection, making big scare of it (which sells), like there is something so bad that you need to hide, instead to watch this amazing effect!
I heard in sone places they hid school children in basement to protect them! Incredibly stupid.
They may be some accidents during (partial) eclipse, since more people look at Sun as usual, but that’s it.
But even during partial phases, there is LESS Sun than usual.
And, during the total eclipse, the Sun is about as bright at Moon. No damage in any way possible
You MUST take OFF any eye protection during the totality, otherwise you will miss a lot!
Let me guess where you live - Southern Illinois?!
Until ~two-thirds of the sun is blocked out, it's not as noticeable while you're viewing the progression... but yes, there is a dimming (think about it... there has to be since the sun's disk is partially covered). Once you get within a few minutes of totality, then the darkening gets quite pronounced. For sure: you wouldn't want to be playing baseball without the stadium lights on... which would mess with the experience for the fans.
Yeah, I didn’t have any dark glasses for the eclipse in 1979. I took a good look while it was total, and then when the edge of the sun appeared again, I quit looking directly at it. The concept of not looking directly at the sun without enough filtering is not that difficult to grasp.
Since we’re most likely not going to travel to see the total eclipse in April and I don’t know if we still have our eclipse glasses from 2017, we’ll probably just use a pinhole projection setup. Maybe I’ll borrow the neighbor’s welding helmet; I used one of those to view a partial eclipse in 1994 with no ill effects.
“During the partial eclipse, the Sun is as bright as usual.”
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Clarification - the uneclipsed part of the sun is as bright as usual, no brighter, no darker.
Overall, the Sun output reaching us is obviously getting smaller, as the uneclipsed disk itself is getting smaller, so the earth is getting darker even during the partial eclipse.
However, the Sun disk is about million times brighter than the corona, so even just a little bit of disk will outshine the corona.
So only during totality, we can actually observe the solar CORONA, which is why the totality is soo special!!!
Please, do not settle for partiality, you must see the totality! It is unbelievable!
You will never forget it and ask for more.
That why there are those eclipse chasers, who do not spare any expense or safety, just to go to all kind of places for couple of minutes look at the corona.
https://apnews.com/article/total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-83164668ee08b0a0c92e1d2ac41e91aa
WHY IS TOTALITY LONGER?
By a cosmic stroke of luck, the moon will make the month’s closest approach to Earth the day before the total solar eclipse. That puts the moon just 223,000 miles (360,000 kilometers) away on eclipse day.
The moon will appear slightly bigger in the sky thanks to that proximity, resulting in an especially long period of sun-blocked darkness.
What’s more, the Earth and moon will be 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the sun that day, the average distance.
When a closer moon pairs up with a more distant sun, totality can last as long as an astounding 7 1/2 minutes. The last time the world saw more than seven minutes of totality was in 1973 over Africa. That won’t happen again until 2150 over the Pacific.
HOW DO I SAFELY WATCH THE ECLIPSE?
Sunglasses won’t cut it. Special eclipse glasses are crucial for safely observing the sun as the moon marches across the late morning and afternoon sky, covering more and more and then less and less of our star.
During totality when the sun is completely shrouded, it’s fine to remove your glasses and look with your naked eyes. But before and after, certified eclipse glasses are essential to avoid eye damage. Just make sure they’re not scratched or torn.
Cameras, binoculars and telescopes must be outfitted with special solar filters for safe viewing. Bottom line: Never look at an exposed sun without proper protection any day of the year.
We had a big event planned in Texas, but my father got sick in November. Now we’re all trekking to upstate NY so my parents can still join in. We did it in Tennessee in 2017.
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