Ready for totality? Here’s a list of cities that will experience total eclipse
(Gray News) - Grab your eclipse glasses and your shadow boxes. It’s almost solar eclipse time again.
North America will again see a play of shadow and light as the 2024 solar eclipse happens on April 8.
Locations in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada will see the sun disappear briefly behind the moon, creating an eerie mid-day darkness.
The eclipse will also reveal the sun’s corona, or the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere usually obscured by its brightness.
Here are the locations in the U.S. that will, weather permitting, experience totality, as well as when totality is expected to begin and end, courtesy of NASA:
| Location | Totality begins | Maximum | Totality ends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas | 1:40 p.m. CDT | 1:42 p.m. CDT | 1:44 p.m. CDT |
| Idabel, Oklahoma | 1:45 p.m. CDT | 1:47 p.m. CDT | 1:49 p.m. CDT |
| Little Rock, Arkansas | 1:51 p.m. CDT | 1:52 p.m. CDT | 1:54 p.m. CDT |
| Poplar Bluff, Missouri | 1:56 p.m. CDT | 1:56 p.m. CDT | 2:00 p.m. CDT |
| Paducah, Kentucky | 2:00 p.m. CDT | 2:01 p.m. CDT | 2:02 p.m. CDT |
| Carbondale, Illinois | 1:59 p.m. CDT | 2:01 p.m. CDT | 2:03 p.m. CDT |
| Evansville, Indiana | 2:02 p.m. CDT | 2:04 p.m. CDT | 2:05 p.m. CDT |
| Cleveland | 3:13 p.m. EDT | 3:15 p.m. EDT | 3:17 p.m. EDT |
| Erie, Pennsylvania | 3:16 p.m. EDT | 3:18 p.m. EDT | 3:20 p.m. EDT |
| Buffalo, New York | 3:18 p.m. EDT | 3:20 p.m. EDT | 3:22 p.m. EDT |
| Burlington, Vermont | 3:26 p.m. EDT | 3:27 p.m. EDT | 3:29 p.m. EDT |
| Lancaster, New Hampshire | 3:27 p.m. EDT | 3:29 p.m. EDT | 3:30 p.m. EDT |
| Caribou, Maine | 3:32 p.m. EDT | 3:33 p.m. EDT | 3:34 p.m. EDT |
If you can’t make it to these locations for the total eclipse, don’t worry. Most of the continent will experience a partial eclipse, though the further away from the path of totality you are, the less of an eclipse you’ll see.
Of course, one should never look directly at the sun, even when it’s partially obscured. And definitely don’t do it using binoculars or other such contraption without a special solar filter. Doing so risks serious eye damage.
Instead, create your own shadow box or another indirect method to safely observe the phenomenon.
NASA has several other tips for how to experience a solar eclipse safely.
After this eclipse, it’s going to be quite a wait for the next one. The next annular (or ring of fire) eclipse will happen in North America in 2041, the National Park Service said, and the next total one isn’t until 2044.
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