#2024 solar eclipse

[frontyard-stars]

Totality

[alex51324]

North American Total Solar Eclipse, 8 April 2024

This is your friendly heads-up that if you want to travel to see the total solar eclipse coming up in the spring, now* is a good time to start making your arrangements!

This one will be visible as at least a partial eclipse to most of North America, with the path of totality cutting a diagonal from Sinaloa, Mexico to Newfoundland, Canada, including 15 US states from Texas to Maine.

Although we just had one a few years ago in 2017, we won't have another solar eclipse visible in the continental US until 2045--and the path of totality for the 2024 one is within driving distance for a much larger proportion of the US population than either 2017 or 2045. The Northeastern US won't see another until the 2070's.

For millions of people, including me, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a total solar eclipse without getting on a plane. Hotels in major cities along the path of totality are already starting to fill up.

Last time, in 2017, I was able to see the partial eclipse from where I live, but it wasn't feasible to travel to see the totality. I heard from people who did see the totality that it's really quite something, so I decided back then that I was going to go to this one. (The one in 2079 might be a bit closer to where I currently live, but I'll be 101 by then, so I figure I'd better not wait.)

Erie, PA is the closest place for me to see it, and I figured I'd camp. I started looking into it last night, and pickings are pretty slim already. I lucked into a camping cottage at a park 20 minutes' drive outside the path of totality--I think someone must've cancelled recently, for me to get it, because out 87 spots, all they had left was 9 tent/trailer sites, and the one cottage.

So anyway, if you want to go, it's an overnight trip for you, and you don't want to end up sleeping in your car at a rest area, now's* the time!

(*Actually several months ago would have been the best time, but the second-best time is now.)

[cosmicexplorersblog]

Space view of moon's shadow on earth during eclipse

[strawberry---shortcake]

[lesbianredpanda]

Full progression of the 2024 total solar eclipse captured from Vermont, USA

[wigmund]

After spending five minutes in the darkness of a total solar eclipse, I completely understand why some cultures would flip the fuck out over the event.

Daylight starts to dim over an hour or so and then suddenly you're in twilight-level darkness while overhead is a perfectly black void ringed by great silver streams of solar corona arcing off into space and sometimes the red glint of solar flares on the lunar edge.

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @thegalacticvoid

"Extremely detailed HDR image of recent Total Solar Eclipse 2024."

[batwynn]

The sun. The moon. They—No, it’s impolite to say.

[cheesyygarlicbread]

08.04.2024, Southern Ontario

My photos of the eclipse

[mama-qwerty]

My uber talented photographer husband got a few pics of totality, from southern Missouri:

[aroaceanarchist]

Picture a friend of mine took from the path of totality for the solar eclipse.

[micvonmessenger]

My First Eclipse Ever!

[simhuman]

Remember to get siphoned before the incinerations start!

[cosmicexplorersblog]

2024 solar eclipse: Diamond ring

Multiple exposures were used in the creation of this digital composite image showing the full evolution of the eclipse on April 8, 2024, in Mazatlan, Mexico.

[minijenn]

Snuff out that mcfucking sun

[lesbianredpanda]

Baily's beads and solar prominences

2024 Total Solar Eclipse from Vermont USA