When will the next solar eclipse be seen in Pennsylvania?

Question by Kilroy Roboto: When will the next solar eclipse be seen in Pennsylvania?
North Eastern United States.
Total eclipse.
Thanks.


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Answer by EmberThe solar eclipse that takes place on Monday, 21 August 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 solar eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including all of North America, northern South America, western Europe, and Africa. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the United States since 1991 (just from part of Hawaii)[1], the first visible from the contiguous United States since 1979,[2] and the first with a path of totality crossing the USA's Pacific coast and Atlantic coast since 1918. This eclipse is a member of Saros cycle 145, the one that also produced the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.

The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 40 seconds in Christian County, Kentucky just northwest of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The path of this eclipse crosses the upcoming path of the total eclipse of 8 April 2024, with the intersection of the two paths being in southern Illinois in Makanda just south of Carbondale. A small land area, including the cities of Carbondale, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, will thus experience two total solar eclipses within a span of less than seven years.

The United States, in the 45 years before this (2017) eclipse will have experienced a rather long total eclipse dry spell. Some American scientists and interested amateurs seeking to experience a total eclipse participated in a four-day Atlantic Ocean cruise to view the Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 as it passed near Nova Scotia. Organizers of the cruise advertised in astronomical journals and in planetarium announcements emphasizing the lack of future U.S. total eclipses until this 2017 event.[1]

The totality of the Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979 passed only through the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota. Many visitors traveled to the Pacific Northwest to view the eclipse, since it would be the last chance to view a total solar eclipse in the United States for almost four decades.[2][3]

A 1991 article in Discover (magazine) noted that "The total solar eclipse of July 11, 1991", that passed over Hawaii and significant portions of Mexico, "[was] the best anyone will be able to see from the [US land] until 2017

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