An animation of the August 21st eclipse.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/AT Sinclair
Posted on 07/19/2017 9:39:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Umbraphiles (those who chase eclipses) have been planning for this one for decades, and it’s already hard to find a room along the path. Fear not, as you only need to be within striking distance the day of the eclipse to reach totality, though expect the roads to be congested that Monday morn.
The eclipse is indeed the first time totality touches the contiguous (“lower 48”) United States since 1979, and the first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since almost a century ago on June 8th 1918. A total solar eclipse did cross Hawaii on July 11th, 1991. total solar eclipse
Partial phases for the eclipse begin at 15:47 Universal Time (UT) and span 5 hours and 18 minutes until 21:04 UT. The partial aspect of the eclipse touches all continents except Antarctica and Australia. The 115 kilometer wide shadow of Earth’s moon (known as the umbra) first makes landfall over the Oregon coast at 17:16 UT /10:16 Pacific Daylight Saving time (PDT) and races eastward at 3,900 kilometers per second. The shadow touches 14 states, just briefly nicking Montana and Iowa. Maximum totality of 2 minutes, 40 seconds occurs near Carbondale, Illinois.
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“Now is the end; perish the earth.”
Last skit, at 1 hour, 53 minutes into Beyond the Fringe:
Thanks for posting this- looks like we have another one April 8, 2024- Am I reading that right?
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Albany, Oregon will be in the path. Something new for all of us and the school summer programs are promoting in a good way for the kids. My Granddaughter is very excited at age four.
But even sooner than that, tomorrow at around 8 to 9 pm local time the Earth will move to completely block the sun for many hours, something that won't happen again for 24 hours.
Solor eclipses are predictors of great swarms of pests. In Oregon’s case it will be Californians.
Too bad it’s not happening in the daytime when you could see it.
makes landfall over the Oregon coast at 17:16 UT /10:16 Pacific Daylight
It starts around 10:15am in Oregan and will last be seen in South Carolina at 2:36:02pm
For the people in the U.S. - gone in a second.
“3,900 kilometers per second”
Pretty sure that’s per hour.
There's only one way in and out of our area: Hwy. 101 North or South. In some areas the highway is only two lanes.
The Oregon Coast commonly experiences morning fog in August - there are scenarios of everyone trying all at the same time to get the heck away from the Coast and head East over the Coast Range to where the sky is clear.
We locals are just anxious for it to be over.
Great post and so very true.
Back in 2015, my husband arranged a business trip to coincide with the total eclipse in Germany. Umbraphile indeed. We will be traveling to try to see this one. It is dicey though, when you consider the likelihood of bad weather obscuring the eclipse. Hopefully we can make it to an area of totality, and at the absolute right time.
I had absolutely no problem getting a hotel room last week, for the path of totality in Tennessee. I didn’t stay in Nashville, though. I don’t like big cities.
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