When will the next solar eclipse in united states take place?
The solar eclipse that takes place on Monday, August 21, 2017 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.031 – that will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. A partial solar eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbra, including all of North America, northern South America, western Europe, and Africa. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the United States since 1991 (just from part of Hawaii), the first visible from the contiguous United States since 1979, and the first with a path of totality crossing the USA’s Pacific coast and Atlantic coast since 1918. This eclipse is a member of Saros cycle 145, the one that also produced the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 40 seconds in Christian County, Kentucky just northwest of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The path of this eclipse crosses the upcoming path of the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, with
