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The clockworks of the cosmos are responsible for how long the sky show lasts in your location. Here's What Determines How Long the Total Eclipse Will Last in Your Location Skip to main content
This will not happen again until May 5, 2600. [52] 2161 May 19 All eight planets are predicted to be on the same side of the Sun, within 69 degrees. [53] 2168 July 5 The largest total solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium, with an eclipse magnitude of 1.08074, lasting 7 minutes and 26 seconds exactly, saros 139. [54] 2169 June–October
This is the second longest total solar eclipse in the 21st century, the longest being the eclipse prior to this one in Solar Saros 136, that of July 22, 2009. The 2009 eclipse maximum duration of 6 minutes and 39.5 seconds occurred on the Pacific Ocean, and the longest duration on land was on remote, uninhabited North Iwo Jima. [7]
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The shadow will be traveling at an average of about 2,300 miles per hour across NY state and will only take about 10 minutes, from one side of state to the other.
Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
The 2024 solar eclipse, set for April 8, is a week away, and with the next total solar eclipse taking place in 20 years, you won't want to miss it.
Twelve (synodic) months, a little longer than an eclipse year: the Sun has returned to the node, so eclipses may again occur: Hexon 6 eclipse seasons, and a fairly short eclipse cycle. Each eclipse in a hexon series (except the last) is followed by an eclipse whose saros series number is 8 lower, always occurring at the same node.