Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

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Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
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classification
Type Total
area Pacific , Central America , North America
Total: Central Pacific , Mexico , USA , Canada
Saros cycle 139 (30 of 71)
Gamma value +0.3432
Greatest eclipse
Duration 4 minutes 28 seconds
place northern mexico
location 25 ° 17 ′  N , 104 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 25 ° 17 ′  N , 104 ° 7 ′  W
time April 8, 2024 6:17:13 PM   UT
size 1.0565
World map of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

The total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024 takes place largely over the Central Pacific , Central America , North America and the northern Atlantic . The maximum of the eclipse is in the northwest of the Mexican state Durango near the town of Nazas in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental . The duration of the total phase is there at 4 minutes and 28 seconds, the sun is 69.8 ° above the horizon.

The solar eclipse belongs to the Saros cycle 139 and is the successor to the solar eclipse of March 29, 2006 .

course

The umbra first reaches Earth in the western Pacific at 158 ​​° 17 ′ west longitude and 7 ° 48 ′ south latitude at 16h 40m UT . On his way to the northeast, he only encounters land after 74 minutes on the Revillagigedo Islands, some 400 km off the Mexican coast . The shadow path then reaches the mainland and first leads over the Mexican states of Sinaloa , Durango and Coahuila before it crosses several states in the USA , from southwest to northeast it leads over Texas , Oklahoma , Arkansas , Missouri , Illinois , Kentucky , Indiana , Ohio , Pennsylvania , New York , Vermont , New Hampshire, and Maine , as well as tiny parts of Tennessee and Michigan . In the northeastern part, the shadow path initially runs partly over Canada , the provinces of Ontario and Québec and then over New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland ( Newfoundland and Labrador ). To the east of Newfoundland, the umbra only crosses the open Atlantic and leaves the earth again at 20 ° 4 ′ west longitude and 47 ° 39 ′ north latitude at 19h 54m UT .

In the totality strip are the tourist centers of Mazatlán on the Mexican Pacific coast, Niagara Falls on the border between the USA and Canada and Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains . Many metropolitan areas are in the totality zone, others such as San Antonio , Columbus , Cincinnati and Toronto partially or just outside. The strip touches the north-western part of the Sierra de Órganos National Park in Mexico and crosses the Kouchibouguac and Terra Nova National Parks in Canada .

About 200 km west of the Texas city of Austin, at Vanderpool in Bandera County , is the intersection of the central line of the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 , so that two central solar eclipses can be seen here less than 6 months apart.

In southern Illinois, Carbondale is located for the second time, in less than seven years, near the central line of a total solar eclipse. A total of 2 minutes and 38 seconds could already be observed here on August 21, 2017 .

Places in the totality zone

country place Duration Time ( UT ) comment
Mexico Isla Socorro 3m 18s 17h 54m first contact with land
Mexico Mazatlan 4m 18s 18h 10m Transition to the mainland
Mexico Durango 3m 40s 18h 14m
Mexico Torreón 4m 6s 18h 19m
Mexico Piedras Negras 4m 24s 18h 30m Mexico / USA border
United States Vanderpool , Texas 4m 26s 18h 33m at the intersection of the central line of the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023
United States Austin , Texas 1m 41s 18h 37m on the southern edge of the totality zone
United States Dallas , Texas 3m 51s 18h 42m
United States Little Rock , Arkansas 2m 17s 18h 53m
United States Carbondale , Illinois 4m 8s 19h 01m near the intersection of the central line of the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017
United States Indianapolis , Indiana 3m 50s 19h 08m
United States Cleveland , Ohio 3m 49s 19h 16m
USA / Canada Niagara Falls , New York / Ontario 3m 30s 19h 20m USA / Canada border
Canada Montreal , Quebec 1m 26s 19h 27m on the northern edge of the totality zone
Canada Fredericton , New Brunswick 2m 13s 19h 35m
Canada Terra Nova National Park , Newfoundland 2m 55s 19h 45m Transition to the North Atlantic

Web links

Commons : Solar eclipse of April 8th, 2024  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fred Espenak : Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035 . Ed .: NASA . 2nd Edition. Sky Publishing, Belmont 1994, ISBN 0-933346-45-X , pp. 122, 226 .
  2. ↑ a b The duration of the totality and the time of the middle of the totality were determined with the interactive map of NASA.
  3. ↑ Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox: Totality: Eclipses of the Sun . 3. Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-953209-4 , pp. 262 .