You’ll have witnessed the annular eclipse on Saturday and might’t get sufficient of it. Possibly the climate or another cause has left you with astronomical FOMO. The excellent news is that one other eclipse will occur quickly, a complete photo voltaic eclipse, with out the ring of fireplace.
Whereas in the present day’s eclipse lined nearly your complete Western Hemisphere, the full photo voltaic eclipse on April 8, 2024 will cross three nations: Mexico, the US, and Canada. Some name it the Nice North American Eclipse.
The annular eclipse and the “Nice American Eclipse” of August 2017 moved throughout the US from northwest to southeast. The April occasion will go the opposite method. When it makes landfall in Mazatlan, Mexico, it’ll enter Texas and go via a couple of dozen different states earlier than reaching the jap provinces of Canada. And for New Yorkers, that is the place for you, though you may must journey to cities like Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester to expertise full darkness within the daytime.
Some locations on the path could have repeat experiences from different occasions. The April eclipse will go via Carbondale, Illinois, which was close to the middle of the 2017 eclipse’s path. San Antonio and surrounding areas in Texas used in the present day’s annular eclipse as a rehearsal for crowds to anticipate subsequent 12 months’s totality.
