Travel & Leisure has an
article by
Stacey Leasca about the
next one:
If you’re feeling a little down today because the total solar eclipse of 2017 is over, you’re not alone. While millions of Americans from coast-to-coast were lucky enough to experience the eclipse in totality, millions more got only a taste of a partial eclipse, or were left out of the fun thanks the weather or simply being stuck inside at work.
But, not to worry, there’s another eclipse heading to the United States in just seven short years, on 8 April 2024.
This North American eclipse won’t stretch from west to east, but rather from south to northeast, starting in Durango, Mexico, and ending in Fredericton, Canada, passing through cities like Austin, and Dallas in Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio along the way. It's going to give a whole new group of skywatchers the chance to experience this spectacular celestial event.
And, of course, the United States is not the only place where this wondrous solar event occurs. A total solar eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth about every 18 months; there will be seven in the next decade.
“It’s such a dramatic, spectacular, beautiful event,” Fred Espenak, a retired astrophysicist who mapped every eclipse from 1999 to the year 3000, told Science News. “You only get a few brief minutes, typically, of totality before it ends. After it’s over, you’re craving to see it again.”
If you simply cannot wait to start planning for the next great American eclipse (and why should you?), then keep scrolling and check out a few of the places the 2024 event will pass through.
See the next eclipse from The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas:
The Alamo, in San Antonio, will see a 99.9% partial eclipse. That may sound good enough, but really you need to be in totality. Visit the Alamo and then head to the northwest area of the city for totality.
Austin, Texas:
Austin keeps it weird; and that'll be perfect for a total solar eclipse. Totality will last about one minute and fifty seconds within the city limits.
Waco, Texas
Waco is pretty close to the center line of the path of the eclipse, and will see about four minutes and thirteen seconds of totality.
Dallas, Texas will see about three minutes and forty-five seconds of totality (and Fort Worth will see totality as well, though for less time).
Cities are fun for eclipses: All the people, experiencing something so grand together. But to feel one with the universe, consider getting away from it all. Arkansas' Ouachita National Forest is right in the path, and the center of the forest will get four minutes and sixteen seconds of totality. Make sure you're in a clearing for it.
Rico says he'll try and get to Austin, where his friend Bill Champ lives, or Waco (Joanna Gaines' territory) or Cincinnati, Ohio, (near enough to Cleveland) where his cousin lives, to see it.
Rico says he safely watched the 2017 eclipse on television.
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