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.