![]() ![]() 21 total solar eclipse will be visible from the Pacific Northwest through the heart of the Midwest to a big chunk of South Carolina. Of course, this annular eclipse is a teasing preview. The next eclipse in this series will be Ma– another annular eclipse. 9, 1836 – the day after board game maker Milton Bradley was born. Central and Eastern Europe and most of Africa will not experience the eclipse at all. Parts of Western Europe, West Africa, and Central Asia will also see at least a penumbral phase of the eclipse. We are long past the total eclipses from Saros 140, as the last one was Nov. The November 2021 total lunar eclipse will be visible in all of North America and South America, all of East Asia, and Oceania. We saw an eclipse from this series on Feb. It belongs to Saros 140, a series that started April 16, 1512. Do not look at the sun directly or through binoculars or a telescope (unless there is proper solar filtration) at the sun.Īs always, the eclipse has a family. If you are fortunate enough to see it in person, please be cautious. Since this eclipse occurs about five days before the moon’s perigee (when it is at its farthest this month away from Earth, March 3) the moon covers most but not all of the sun, leaving a smidgen of the sun uncovered – the effect is a “ring of fire.” Sunday’s event is an annular eclipse (derived from Latin, the word annular means ring-shaped). Thanks to perfect celestial mechanics, a total solar eclipse covers the entirety of the sun’s disk. ET, and that lasts about 44 seconds, according to Espenak. The “greatest eclipse” part, when the moon shadow’s axis passes closest to Earth’s center – east of Buenos Aires in the Atlantic Ocean – happens at 9:54 a.m. ET, which lasts about 1 minute and 22 seconds, when the eclipse ribbon is 59 miles wide. The “greatest duration” of the eclipse – west of Chile in the South Pacific Ocean – occurs at 8:16 a.m. ![]()
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