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2024 Solar Eclipse

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The Chronicler:
@Flathead770 Glad to hear you got lucky with not only the opportunity to visit the path of totality but also that you caught enough of a break in the weather to observe the eclipse. For me, I'm actually astonished that the best weather we got here in Vermont for over a month just so happened to occur right around the day of the eclipse (we had snowfall just a few days prior, heavy rainfall just a few days following, and practically every other day before and since has been a full cloudy sky). I hope you'll be just as fortunate in 2044, because take it from me, there is no experience like witnessing a total solar eclipse from a place as familiar as your home neighborhood.

I also looked up some other upcoming total solar eclipses that interest me, despite how unlikely I am to actually travel just to observe them...

2027 will have one of the longest eclipses of this century, and while the path of totality stretches from Gibraltar to Mecca, I can imagine one of the most popular destinations will be the location of longest duration (over six minutes) near Luxor, Egypt.

2028, the first of four eclipses across Australia over a ten year period, the city of Sydney will be within the path of totality, so that might be a tempting destination for those who might not be willing to venture deep into the outback.

2033 has a brief one across northwestern Alaska, which includes places like Nome and Barrow, so it'll be interesting to see just how many people are willing to travel to such a remote area with limited infrastructure.

And of course, I have long term hopes of visiting Florida to witness the 2045 eclipse (and from what little I've been able to study, it seems my desire to witness possibly up to six minutes of totality will probably require going to some place near Orlando).

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