https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_21st_century
Not a lot of TOTAL eclipses. And the next US total is 20 years.
Unless you can afford to fly (and stay) internationally, it might very well be once in a lifetime to witness totality.
We aren't sure yet, but we are likely the only place in the galaxy that has the perfect total eclipses. If humanity ever manages to unite and take to the stars, there's a strong argument to be made for our flag to just be a black field with a solar corona. We may even have to worry about too much extra-terrestrial eclipse tourism.
Solar eclipses on Mars are underwhelming.
It's also massively over hyped imo. I did the last one and the coolest part was the shadows, but the actual darkness was super underwhelming. Hearing everyone say it was like some spiritual experience makes me roll my eyes a bit. It got dark for a bit. It does that shit every day smh.
People aren't amazed because it gets dark for a bit. People are amazed because it reminds us that the sun and the moon are real 3d objects incredibly far away, not just images in the sky. I can understand how it is a spiritual experience for a lot of people.
It's also an incredible coincidence (or otherwise, depending on your beliefs) how the distance and size of the two bodies matches perfectly for the total eclipse to be a thing at all.
Technically it would be fine for the moon to be bigger or closer and you'd still get a total eclipse.
It turns out, animals get freaked out when sun does weird thing, and we're animals too
EDIT: I went and it was the coolest thing I've ever seen. That still just means I was bowled over by a rock casting a shadow. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This is the most wrong comment I have ever seen on this entire fucking website.
I can assure anyone reading this, that this guy is just being a contrarian to seem better than other people.
The eclipse was the single greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I'd like to solve, Alex:
What are different places on Earth from where the eclipse is visible?
And you may find yourself behind the holes you cut into some cereal box
And you may find yourself Airbnbing a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself burning down the house
And you might ask yourself, how did I get here?
Saw it with totality.
Worth it.
Even if you only get a once in a lifetime shot, do it.
I just did too. It was really cool!
Yeah, after seeing a total eclipse, all those partial eclipses seem like nothing. I'm not sure I'll even bother watching a partial or annular eclipse again.
Glad you were able to see it without cloud cover. I ended up changing my destination this morning due to cloud forecast.
Eclipses might be a dime-a-dozen, but Halley's Comet doesn't mess around. My grandad saw it twice. I hope to, too. It comes once every 75 years. The last time was 1986. The next is 2061. If you were born today, you'd have to live to be 112 years-old to see it a second time.
The next total eclipse over the US will be in 2078
2044
But there will be a European one in 2026.
The Total Eclipse in Europe will cross southern Spain on the evening of 12th August, 2026. Next total eclipse in Europe will rarely be the following year, 2027, in the southern Spain. Next after will only happen in 2061, over Russia and Kazajstan
And I'm gonna remember this April American one being hyped and I'm half a world away from seeing it.
Some form of frequency illusoon, I'm sure.
200 million people either live in, or within driving distance of, the path of totality.
And lots of hotels and Airbnbs have been booked. So much hype.
Maybe a location thing. The current eclipse passes through NY today, the next one touching NY won’t be until 2079. Texas 2045. So it’s all over the place time-wise between eclipses and location.
Also there are a lot more partial eclipses then total like today.
I propose that the next big NASA project should be to fix those stupid 5° tilt on the moons orbital plane.
Or to make a giant disc that can be positioned in an orbit that totally eclipses the sun and/or our hearts regularly so that when we're old we can bitch at kids about how total eclipses used to be rare and special but now everyone takes them for granted because NASA wasted a bunch of money making them mundane and that's what happened to our retirement funds and is why grandparents live in boxes and look forward to the relative comfort of the final box.
Edit: wording
Everytime I do something I'm gonna say to people " that won't happen for another 150 years".
I've seen somebody on Facebook post 2024 has 366 days. This won't happen again for another thousand years.
Yeah, leap years.
They were right, though.
A year with 366 days and ending in "024" won't happen for another thousand years.
Yeah, but most of those are boring-ass lunar eclipses. The cool one, the solar eclipse, is much rarer.
Even a full solar eclipse happens every 2 years or so.
Total solar eclipses in any given area only happen about once in 300 years I think? (I'm too lazy to go look up the exact math). So unless you are willing to travel the 150 year number isn't that wrong.
Solar eclipses happen every 1-3 years.
But the darkest shadow called the umbra only falls in a very tiny place, slightly bigger than a few Districts and that shadow moves in a line and those places experience total solar eclipse.
So next year there may be another solar eclipse but New York will not experience a total solar eclipse for a long time.
Also two-thirds of the earth is water so most of the time the umbra falls on the sea.
Got lucky here as the clouds melted away enabling a good look from about 30% onward. Reinforced for me the fact that even though we are not even a microscopic part of the cosmic whole this event, also not a microscopic part of the infinity of the universe, is still a very moving and impressive thing
Even with cloud cover, seeing it at home was something special. I know what it's supposed to look and sound like at that hour. It wasn't the same as night - I could still see sunlight on the horizon all around me. I could sense that the wildlife was confused by it - all the birds just flew to the tops of the trees and were trying to make sense of what was happening. The bugs went quiet, and we were all whispering for no apparent reason - it just felt appropriate. The slow descent into darkness was unsettling, especially under cloud cover - it felt like we were under the gaze of a passing giant we could not see. I was surprised by how relieved I felt when the light started to return. It wasn't what I was expecting but the strangeness of it didn't disappoint, and I don't think seeing it away from home would have been quite the same.
the likelihood that you get an eclipse with totality near enough to you where you can see it.
Is basically zero.
Who the hell witnesses totality "every year and a half"? Moron.
It's hard to say because all of the figures come from different places, and the news articles always like to say the longer figures to gather more attention.
ex: There won't be another eclipse over Ohio for ___ years vs There won't be another eclipse over the continental U.S. for ___ years vs There won't be another eclipse anywhere in the world for ___ years
The problem is there are different once in a century events every year or two
You're thinking of Haley's comet. Easy mistake.
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