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You don't need dark skies for a solar eclipse, only clear ones. (Dark skies are important for stargazing, but by definition a total solar eclipse happens during the day.)
Yes, total eclipses happen during the day. However, planets are visible during an eclipse. What makes you think that the brightness (or lack of) of the surrounding area won't make a difference?
Yes, total eclipses happen during the day. However, planets are visible during an eclipse. What makes you think that the brightness (or lack of) of the surrounding area won't make a difference?
Hint: if you are looking at planets during a total solar eclipse, you are focusing on the wrong thing. Because an eclipse is so short, you want to focus on the things you can ONLY see during a total eclipse, like the detail in the solar corona, and the presence or absence of solar prominences and flares. The planets won't look any different to your naked eye during an eclipse than they do at any other time, so why waste precious time observing them?
And no place has dark skies during the day (which is when the eclipse takes place), so your comment about Mexico having dark skies makes no sense in any case. The sky during totality doesn't become even close to completely dark; it looks more like a deep twilight (but with a sunset that spans 360 degrees - very odd to see).
(Also, you don't need an eclipse to see at least some planets during the day. Venus is actually easy to see in broad daylight; Mercury's a bit more difficult, but is best spotted during early twilight, not at night. Jupiter and Saturn can also be seen during the day with a bit of optical aid.)
2019 is leaving us. 2020 is right around the corner. Only 4.25 years to the eclipse!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you, too! The countdown grows just a bit shorter... (I wonder how soon it will be possible to book accommodations along the eclipse path?)
Hint: if you are looking at planets during a total solar eclipse, you are focusing on the wrong thing. Because an eclipse is so short, you want to focus on the things you can ONLY see during a total eclipse, like the detail in the solar corona, and the presence or absence of solar prominences and flares. The planets won't look any different to your naked eye during an eclipse than they do at any other time, so why waste precious time observing them?
And no place has dark skies during the day (which is when the eclipse takes place), so your comment about Mexico having dark skies makes no sense in any case. The sky during totality doesn't become even close to completely dark; it looks more like a deep twilight (but with a sunset that spans 360 degrees - very odd to see).
(Also, you don't need an eclipse to see at least some planets during the day. Venus is actually easy to see in broad daylight; Mercury's a bit more difficult, but is best spotted during early twilight, not at night. Jupiter and Saturn can also be seen during the day with a bit of optical aid.)
Truth! Look at the eclipse! I got a decent shot with this rigged filter for my camera.
Where do you plan to be? Do you plan to be in the ’totality path’, as it is called? Who’s going, and where do you plan to be? I’ll be in the Texas Hill Country.
Here is a map of the totality path ➜ https://is.gd/tse_2024_jubier. As you can see, totality will touch these states and provinces in Mexico, the US, and Canada:
◆ In Mexico, 5 states — Nayarit, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua (barely), and Coahuila.
In quick abbreviations that’s MEX, 5 states — NA SI DG CI CH
◆ In the US, 15 states — Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee (barely), Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan (barely), Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine
That’s USA, 15 — TX OK AR MO TN KY IL IN OH MI PA NY VT NH ME
◆ In Canada, 6 provinces — Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia (barely, at Cape Breton Island), and Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland Island only)
That’s CAN, 6 — ON QC NB PE NS NL
From this map https://is.gd/tse_2024_jubier you can see that the totality path will nicely cross significant parts of North America.
Can you get to totality? For a unique and rare experience, highly recommended!
And now the eclipse is 3 weeks from tomorrow. I’m going to central Texas, northwest of San Antonio and near Fredericksburg. Where do others plan to be?
And now the eclipse is 3 weeks from tomorrow. I’m going to central Texas, northwest of San Antonio and near Fredericksburg. Where do others plan to be?
If the weather is nice, I’ll go to southeast Oklahoma.
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