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This will be an unusually favorable time for extended totality along its path. The date and time are only 17 days after aphelion … so the sun appears nearly as small as it ever can during the course of the year … and only 7 hours after the moon’s perigee … so the moon appears nearly as large as it ever can during the course of a month.
