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Does a total eclipse lasts a few minutes?

April 26, 2017Eclipse lasts Minutes total

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Does a total eclipse lasts a few minutes?

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To clarify, at any given spot on earth a total solar eclipse lasts just a few minutes. However, if you could be witnessing such an eclipse from high in space, you would see that there is a “path of totality” that sweeps across the sunlit face of earth. The length of this path varies from eclipse to eclipse. It is this path sweeping along the earth that can last for several hours, not the experience of the eclipse for a given individual at a fixed spot.