Solar eclipse of 2017 August 21

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The solar eclipse that takes place on August 21, 2017 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.031 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including the whole of North America, northern South America and western Europe and Africa. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the United States since 1991 (visible in parts of Hawaii)[1], and the first visible from the contiguous United States since 1979.[2]

The path of this eclipse crosses at right-angles the path of the total eclipse of April 8, 2024, with the intersection of the paths being in western Kentucky. A small area including the city of Paducah will thus experience two total solar eclipses within a span of less than seven years.

1 Notable times and coordinates
2 Type of the eclipse
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Notable times and coordinates

Event	Time (UTC)
Beginning of the general eclipse	15:46:48
Beginning of the total eclipse	16:48:32
Beginning of the central eclipse	16:49:33
Greatest eclipse	18:25:28
End of the central eclipse	20:01:35
End of the total eclipse	20:02:30
End of the general eclipse	21:04:19

[edit] Type of the eclipse

Nature of the eclipses	Total
Gamma	0.4369
Magnitude	1.0306
Duration at greatest eclipse point	160 s (2 min 40 s) at 18:25:28 UTC, in Kentucky: 36°58′30″N, 87°39′18″W
Maximum width of band	114.7 km