Total solar eclipse in USA on 21 August 2017

 

One Saros period (18 years and 10 or 11 1/3 days) after the European eclipse of 11  August 1999, a similar eclipse will take place, but this time about 120 degrees to the West. This eclipse will be visible in 14 of the United Status of America. Maximum duration is more than 2m40s near Sourthern Illinois, where the sun will be 64 degrees above the horizon. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the USA since 26 February 1979.

States whare the eclipse will be total are Oregon, Idaho, a little tip ofMontana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, a tip of  Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tenessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina. In the rest of the USA the eclipse will be partial. This will also be the case for Canada and large parts of Latin America.

The path can be downloaded in Google Earth format. Save the file with a *.kml extension.
 


Source: Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC

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