Total solar eclipse

A total Solar Eclipse takes place on November 01, 2017. The eclipse will have a magnitude of 1.015 and will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 44.3 seconds at 37°38?12?N 89°15?24?W in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the southeastern United States since the solar eclipse of March 7, 1970.

The total eclipse can be seen from Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Northeastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky, Tennessee, Southwestern North Carolina, Northeastern Georgia and South Carolina. A partial eclipse will be visible from North America, Hawaii, Greenland, Iceland, British Isles, Portugal, Central America, Caribbean, Northern South America and Chukchi Peninsula.

This eclipse is the 22nd of the 77 members of Saros series 145, the one that also produced the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. Members of this series are increasing in duration. The longest eclipse in this series will occur on June 25, 2522 and last for 7 minutes and 12 seconds. (With material from: Wikipedia)

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