Total Solar Eclipse

The next total solar eclipse for the United States is on August 21, 2017. The path of totality tracks across the lower 48 states from Oregon to South Carolina. The last US solar eclipse was in 1991. This is the first in the lower 48 states since 1979.

The public interest in eclipses might be waning--but one can only hope that the next total solar eclipse visible in North America on Aug 21, 2017 will bring the same awe the last one in February of 1979 brought to me and everybody else who had a pulse...

I will always remember my family's vacation to Turkey, not only for seeing a total solar eclipse but also for the man with a machine gun watching it next to me.

July 2009 seemed an auspicious time. Two lunar eclipses and one solar eclipses in a single month.