On Saturday, October 14 a major solar eclipse will come to North America. From a narrow path through nine states in the U.S. Southwest a “ring of fire” will be seen as the thin outer ring of the sun’s disk remains visible while its center is covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
For everyone else in the U.S. a partial solar eclipse will be the whole ball-game.
It won’t be as grand a spectacle as a total solar eclipse—which is coming to North America in April—largely because solar eclipse glasses are required throughout the entire event, but Saturday sees a significant and spectacular celestial event.
If you need to know when the eclipse is in California, Texas, Florida, New York or any other in the contiguous U.S. then check out these useful maps from ace eclipse cartographer Michael Zeiler at GreatAmericanEclipse.com.
They show the path of annularity—a 125 miles wide path through nine U.S. states where the “ring of fire” will be visible from. Those states are: Oregon, northern California, southwestern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, northeastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
However, they also show the start, finish and peak times of the eclipse for the entire continent.
Here are the local times the partial solar eclipse phase begins in all contiguous U.S. states on October 14, 2023.
Here are the local times the solar eclipse peaks in all contiguous U.S. states on October 14, 2023.
If you want to be outside to see the moment when the most of the sun is obscured by the moon, this is the map you need:
Wherever you are in the U.S. here’s how much of the sun will be covered.
As you can see, it matters how far you are from that path of annularity. The closer you are, the more of the sun will disappear behind the moon. So this is a “better” eclipse the farther west you are in the U.S—with the plum region the narrow path of annularity.
Here are the local times the partial solar eclipse phase ends in all contiguous U.S. states on October 14, 2023:
The entire event—from “first contact” when the moon begins to cover the sun to when it finally departs at “fourth contact”—will take between two and three hours, depending on your location.
A good way to find out the time of the eclipse for any location is to use the “eclipse lookup” option on Timeanddate.com. It will give you an entire schedule for any location, like this one for Los Angeles:
It’s also worth checking out this interactive map and these simulations of exactly what you’ll see from any location in the U.S.—which look like this for San Antonio:
From within the path of the annular solar eclipse the spectacle will be no different from the partial solar eclipse across the U.S. except for the fact that a brief “ring of fire” will be
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