Your chances of seeing the solar eclipse on Monday may be just a little bit slimmer.
New calculations by eclipse calculation guru John Irwin suggest that the path of a total solar eclipse (where the moon completely obliterates the sun) is actually 600 yards narrower than officially predicted by NASA. ing.
This means that if you plan on observing the eclipse from a location at the edge of its total path, you may need an even shorter time frame.
Some spots will be completely missed.
This new data determined which areas were expected to see a total solar eclipse for several seconds, including Rome and New York. Effingham, Illinois. Montreal’s Cité Jardin Park is currently outside the zone.
The changes that occurred in the total path, which was 115 miles wide and 9,200 miles long, were First reported by Forbes.
NASA scientists have confirmed that long-standing official maps may not be accurate and are asking people on the border to move one mile inside the zone to ensure they can see the moon, which completely obscures the sun. I advised him to move further.
Cause of disagreement: disagreement about the size of the sun.
“Calculations that use a slightly larger radius relative to the size of the Sun result in a slightly narrower eclipse path,” said Dr. Michael Kirk, a research scientist in the Solar Physics Sciences Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He said: told Thrillist Wednesday.
“This difference only affects cities at the very edge of the path of totality, which in any case is difficult to predict comprehensively.
“The total time for a few city blocks one way could be 20 seconds, 10 seconds, or even 0 seconds.”
The totality zone may also be slightly affected by “uncertainties in the Earth’s rotation,” Kirk said.
“If you move toward the center of the overall trail, even by a mile or two, the overall length that people can see quickly increases.”
Any small nuances within this zone will not affect the vast majority of the estimated 34 million people expected to witness the total solar eclipse on Monday.
Everything you need to know about the 2024 solar eclipse
- The solar eclipse will occur on Monday, April 8th, blocking the sun from more than 180 million people in its path.
- The eclipse will spread from the Pacific coast of Mexico across North America, hitting 15 U.S. states and reaching the shores of Newfoundland, Canada.
- New Yorkers will experience a solar eclipse Monday just after 2 p.m.
- Experts say a massive solar explosion known as a coronal mass ejection is expected. Ryan French of the National Solar Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, explains that this happens when huge particles from the sun are sent flying into space.
- To avoid serious damage to the eyes, during the pre- and post-total partial eclipse stages, the phenomenon must be viewed through appropriate glasses, such as eclipse glasses or hand-held solar observing devices.
- The next total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026, and will be visible to people in Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia, and parts of Portugal.
Many major U.S. cities, including Dallas, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Buffalo, will remain in the middle of the road and be in complete darkness for nearly four minutes.
The longest period of darkness within this zone is Torreon, Mexico, where the sun is dark for 4 minutes and 28 seconds.
By the time the eclipse is visible in Lake Placid, New York, the total length will have decreased to 3 minutes and 21 seconds.
