A "Greater" Solar Eclipse In 2024

Above, the 2017 total eclipse. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

If you happened to miss the Great American Eclipse two years ago, you'll get another chance in five years to experience another total solar eclipse.

I went up to Idaho to view the 2017 eclipse and I haven't regretted making the trip.

Forbes.com wrote:

In exactly five years North America will once again experience a total solar eclipse, but what happens on April 8, 2024, will put the events of August 21, 2017, firmly in the shade. No eclipse will match it until 2045. 

Savvy eclipse-chasers get planning as early as possible, especially when there's an eclipse going on in North America. After all, the 2017 total solar eclipse was one of the most watched events in human history, but the two minutes or so of totality (when the moon completely blocks the sun) on offer that day will be dwarfed in 2024. For those who didn’t see the "Great American Eclipse" of 2017, there's not just another chance in 2024, but a chance to experience what in many ways will be a “better” eclipse … if the skies are clear. 

The path of totality in 2024 

The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be longer, darker, and seen by many millions more people. Over four minutes of totality will be observable from under a 100-mile wide path of totality stretching from Mexico's Pacific Coast through the U.S from Texas to Maine, and into Atlantic Canada. During the 139 minutes it's over land the moon's central shadow will plunge into darkness parts of Sinaloa, Durango, and Coahuila in Mexico, and in the US, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, tiny slithers of Tennessee and Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. As it moves over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on the US-Canada border, the shadow will fall on parts of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. 

It's going to be a truly great North American eclipse.

Next time, I won't have to drive to far since it can be seen in "nearby" Texas. And, it will take place in the cool month of April!

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