Solar eclipse 2017: When is the next eclipse?

Eclipse fever has gripped America as the total solar eclipse makes its way across the country. But after the Great American Eclipse is in the history books, when can we expect to put those solar eclipse glasses to use again?

According to NASA, we will have to wait a couple of years.

On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse - an eclipse in which the moon covers the sun's center, leaving its visible outer edges to form a "ring of fire" around the moon - will be visible from northern California to Florida.

The next total solar eclipse that will be visible in the lower-48 states will be on April 8, 2024. While the Aug. 21 eclipse tracks from Oregon at its start to the east coast near South Carolina, the 2024 eclipse will travel northeast from Texas to Maine, crossing the past of the 2017 eclipse at Carbondale, Illinois.

Since 1503, there have been 15 total solar eclipse paths that have crossed the path of the August 2017 eclipse, NASA said.

The last total solar eclipse viewed from contiguous United States was on Feb. 26, 1979, when the path passed through the northwestern U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

According to NASA, calculations show that it will take about 1000 years for every geographic location in the Lower-48 to be able to view a total solar eclipse. In a map that tracks of all total solar eclipses from 1000 to 2000 BCE have been overlain, there are two areas; one in north eastern Colorado centered on Fort Morgan, and one in Nebraska centered near Lewellen,  that have not seen a total solar eclipse in over 1000 years. Each area is about 50 km across.

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