Will Madeline remember this? It’s what she beheld on her first birthday, August 21, in 2017, from the lake in the Furman campus.
What’s to come? As shown in this picture from page 101 of our Under-Standing of Eclipses,
2023 Oct. 14 will be seen frm a broad path across the western and southwestern U.S., but will be only annular (a ring of Sun around the Moon). There will be more about it in our Astronomical Calendar 2023 .
2024 Apr. 8 is the next great total eclipse with a track across Mexico, the eastern U.S., and eastern Canada.
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A bit of a long range weather forecast as to what it’ll be like in April 2024!I suppose that that’s based on the average April cloud cover in your part of the world? However I wouldn’t give up hope as the weather is inherently unpredictable.I didn’t hold out much hope for the last partial solar eclipse here as I think it was in a November, often gray and damp,but it was clear.
The most heavily circled date on my future astronomical calendar is the total solar eclipse of 22 July 2028, the central line of which runs right through Sydney, only a few kilometres from my house.
Beautiful pictures but sadly she won’t remember as childrens memories seen to begin at about 3.They must have memories before that but just reinforcing ones and short term ones.I think that mine is when my sister was born and I’d just turned 3.
The first solar eclipse that I “under-stood” was in 1970, on March 7, viewed from our neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. I was 7 years old and I recall that the mid-day sky turned a dull, steel gray (it was not total in Richmond, but perhaps 98% of total). I recall that my father, who had never experienced a solar eclipse, was disappointed that even 98% or 99% of totality was still nothing compared to being in the path of totality; all we would have had to do was drive 2 hours to Norfolk for totality. The eclipse of April 2024 is 54 years later, or three iterations of the 18 year saros period. I certainly intend to go to Texas to see both the annular 2023 one and the 2024 eclipse. Unfortunately, the weather prospects for the April 2024 eclipse are not great anywhere along the part of its track in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_7,_1970
Very nice! Thanks for sharing
Beautiful!! Thank you so much, Guy
Oh, I so love this post and those fabulous illustrations! We were thinking about you and Tilly over at Furman on that special day. What’s even neater is that Madeline’s first birthday happened that day. Truly special! We’ll be heading up north to Maine to view the solar eclipse in ’24. My daughter is now living there so I’ll get to be with her this time. Plus, we will be meeting up with all our 2017 eclipse friends to boot–a reunion!