See the Next Solar Eclipse!
A real-life awesome experience
This page will keep you informed about all of the upcoming total solar eclipses worldwide.
Scroll down to see the information about the exciting eclipse coming to the mainland USA!
Unlike the old days, you may now have the possibility to get a chance to see one live.
Just book your flight or cruise-ship on the path of totality and experience it for yourself.
If you wish to see information about upcoming LUNAR eclipses, then please go here to:
Upcoming Solar Eclipses in 2011 and 2012
Graphic of upcoming Solar Eclipses!
Look for your location in the world in see when you will get lucky!
photo courtesy of: http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/future.html
The Next BIG one will be on NOVEMBER 13th 2012 (Visible from north central Australia to the Great Barrier Reef)
March 9, 2016: Crosses Indonesia-Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Halmahera
August 21, 2017: Sweeps a 70-mile-wide path across the United States, moving across Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina
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Countdown to Next Worthwhile Total Solar Eclipse
Warning!
If you look at a solar eclipse with your bare eyes, you will risk a chance of getting serious eye damage or go blind!
So please please never gaze directly at it.
Detailed information about the Eclipse of November 13, 2012
A total solar eclipse will take place on 13-14 November, 2012, with a magnitude of 1.0500.
For this eclipse totality will be visible from northern Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean.
When seen from west of the International Date Line, for example from Port Douglas & Cairns in Australia, the eclipse will take place on the morning of November 14. Greatest eclipse, of duration 4 min 2 sec, will occur east of the International Date Line on November 13, approximately 2000 km east of New Zealand, and 9600 km west of Chile, visible only as a partial eclipse on sunset from the coast.
This particular Total Solar Eclipse will play host to the worlds first Solar Eclipse Marathon to take place in Port Douglas The race of over 2,000 international competitors and race ambassador Steve Moneghetti will commence as the first rays of the sun re-emerge from behind the moon bringing about the worlds first "intergalactic starting gun".
ECLIPSE coming to the USA!
Incredible opportunity for MILLIONS, (see information near the bottom of this page).
Total Solar Eclipse
Nowadays, with modern affordable (well sort of for some of us) air travel, you can see and experience a real total solar eclipse in person.You can even book to go on a cruise ship if the area of maximum is over water! Imagine the thrill of being exactly in the area of totality, so awesome. It must surely be something that cannot be really recorded with just a camera. To experience it in person with your own eyes is the way to go!
Bookmark this valuable page to keep track of ALL future solar eclipses.
There are other types of eclipses - total solar, partial solar, annular, and lunar. Partial eclipses are pretty happen fairly regularly.
Lunar eclipses can be seen only at night, but the attraction is that it can be viewed by half the planet in one shot, that covers a lot of people! But they are so BORING! Sorry, but it's like watching paint dry - OMG. You need to be partying or something to survive the many hours it takes to complete the transit.
Annular solar eclipses are not as common, but you need to use filters to see them, it's better you don't even know about them to avoid eye damage anyway.
But a TOTAL SOLAR eclipse -- this is a rare, and extremely beautiful experience, and the naked-eye breathtaking sight of totality is absolutely awe-inspiring to everyone in the microscopically narrow path in the center line! They are a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to see the power of nature at its best. (So different than the horrifyingly negative display of nature, such as a tsunami or earthquake).
Please scroll down to see upcoming events.
Detailed information about each and every upcoming eclipse will be posted.
As the event becomes closer, flight and cruise information will be posted here.
See the difference between annular and total solar eclipses
Astronomy sites
- Solar Eclipse Preview: 2001 - 2020
- This page offers a preview to upcoming eclipses of the Sun. It includes links to eclipse maps and tables
- Totality - Eclipses of the Sun
- This page describes the book
- Welcome to Explorers Tours - Total Solar Eclipse Astronomy Tours and Holidays
- Explorers Tours - Total Solar Eclipse Astronomy Tours and Holidays
- Astronomy 161: The Solar System
- Astronomy 161 The Solar System In this semester of Astronomy we shall concern ourselves primarily with the Solar System. As an introduction to that, we shall consider the historical development of our modern picture of the Solar System.
- SkyandTelescope.com - Homepage Observing - An Exotic Solar Eclipse
- On July 11th, a lot of ocean and a few tiny bits of land will experience a Moon-blackened Sun. But getting to the Moon's shadow will be a challenge.
- Once-in-a-lifetime eclipse by asteroid to treat Europe
- July 05, 2010 RETURN TO THE WORLD SCIENCE HOME PAGE Once-in-a-lifetime eclipse by asteroid to treat Europe
News Posts from Google about eclipses
- Australia set for total eclipse of moon
- IT will be big, round and red, and early tomorrow morning sky watchers across Australia will be treated to a total eclipse of the moon. Surprisingly, the moon won't vanish as the sun does during a total solar eclipse, thanks to the geometry of Earth, ...
- Beware the eclipse: Common history of fear
- "According to Herodotus, in 585 BCE a total solar eclipse occurred during a battle between the Lydians and Medes in what is now Turkey. They saw this event as a divine sign, stopped fighting, and made peace." Duane hopes his research paper, ...
- NASA's LRO takes extreme close-up of eclipse
- During this eclipse, the moon's orbital path will take it close to the center of the darkest part of Earth's shadow, called the umbra, so the deepest part of the eclipse will last a long time -- just over an hour and 40 minutes. Unlike a solar eclipse, ...
- Mike Pound: Some flights are longer than others
- By Mike Pound news@joplinglobe.com That was the only explanation that came to mind as it suddenly got dark, as if something had blocked out the sun. But I didn't remember hearing anything about a solar eclipse coming, and usually that's the sort of ...
Total Solar Eclipse
August 21, 2017
See a total solar eclipse viewable in the continental US!
The USA hasn't seen an eclipse since 1991
This will be the first one to be seen countrywide since way back in 1918
The US has waited 26 years, that's long enough. Get ready for a lot of interest as this fuss about the 2017 event gets closer. Drop everything you would be doing on that special day and for once enjoy something really different for 2 and 1/2 terrific minutes.
"Only two and a half minutes? No way! I'm not even gonna waste my time for that!"
No, no - believe me - Get yourself there; get to the shadow, and see something you simply won't believe. You won't be wasting your time - not by a long shot.
Trust me please!
Please bookmark this page and I will keep you informed about all of the details.
AUGUST 21, 2017 is the big day (in the summer, PERFECT)!
One of the best eclipse videos ever posted on YouTube!
- The Solar Eclipse In Varanasi - Wonders of the Solar System - Series 1 Episode 1 Preview - BBC Two
- by BBC | video info
914 ratings | 364,910 views
What is all this talk about solar eclipses?
- Lunar Eclipse June 15: Where to Watch It Live
- The moon is seen during a lunar eclipse in Dunte, about 65 km (40 miles) from capital Riga, August 17, 2008. Unlike solar eclipses that can be appreciated for a couple of minutes using eye protecting filters, this lunar eclipse will be a 1 hour and 40 ...
- Beware the eclipse: Common history of fear
- "According to Herodotus, in 585 BCE a total solar eclipse occurred during a battle between the Lydians and Medes in what is now Turkey. They saw this event as a divine sign, stopped fighting, and made peace." Duane hopes his research paper, ...
- Spectacular finish to "midnight" partial eclipse
- Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth during its "new phase" and appears to block the sun when seen from the ground. When the moon and sun align perfectly a total solar eclipse occurs, which completely covers the sun. ...
- Solar eclipse at midnight tonight [PHOTOS]
- This solar eclipse on July 22, 2009, in Iwojima Island, Tokyo, was the longest total eclipse of the sun of this century. It triggered tourist fever in Asia as astronomy enthusiasts from home and abroad flocked to watch the event. ...
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