Everytime I do something I'm gonna say to people " that won't happen for another 150 years".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_21st_century
Not a lot of TOTAL eclipses. And the next US total is 20 years.
Unless you can afford to fly (and stay) internationally, it might very well be once in a lifetime to witness totality.
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The next total eclipse over the US will be in 2078
2044
But there will be a European one in 2026.
The Total Eclipse in Europe will cross southern Spain on the evening of 12th August, 2026. Next total eclipse in Europe will rarely be the following year, 2027, in the southern Spain. Next after will only happen in 2061, over Russia and Kazajstan
And I'm gonna remember this April American one being hyped and I'm half a world away from seeing it.
Some form of frequency illusoon, I'm sure.
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I just had this argument with my family, timely!
Yeah, but most of those are boring-ass lunar eclipses. The cool one, the solar eclipse, is much rarer.
Even a full solar eclipse happens every 2 years or so.
Total solar eclipses in any given area only happen about once in 300 years I think? (I'm too lazy to go look up the exact math). So unless you are willing to travel the 150 year number isn't that wrong.
It's more frequent than that. It's a cycle that repeats on a very regular basis.
The current eclipse is part of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Saros_139
This was a super cool link. Thanks for sharing!
Doesn't that say it changes slightly each year, so if you're on the edge one time you may never see that cycle again and will need to wait until a different full eclipse reaches you?
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I'd like to solve, Alex:
What are different places on Earth from where the eclipse is visible?
And you may find yourself behind the holes you cut into some cereal box
And you may find yourself Airbnbing a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself burning down the house
And you might ask yourself, how did I get here?
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