Wednesday October 2, 2024

New Moon and Annular Solar Eclipse

When the moon passes the sun at new moon on Wednesday, October 2 at 2:49 p.m. EDT, 11:49 a.m. PDT, or 18:49 UT, it will generate a solar eclipse visible in the eastern and southern Pacific Ocean region. Since the moon will reach
apogee only an hour after that, it will be farther from the Earth and too
small to completely block the sun's disk, resulting in an annular, or "ring of fire", solar eclipse. The narrow track where annularity will be visible will begin about 1,000 miles (1,700 km) south of the Hawaiian Islands at 16:54 UT
or 7:54 a.m. Hawaiian time. From there, the moon's shadow will sweep southeast across the ocean, reaching greatest eclipse, with 7.4 minutes of annularity,
at 18:45 UT, and then 6.4 minutes of annularity on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) at 2:07 p.m. EASST or 19:07 UT. The eclipse will reach the mountainous Patagonian coast of Chile at or 5:22 p.m. CLST or 20:22 UT, then the eastern coast of Argentina six minutes later at 20:28 UT. The eclipse will end 340 miles (550 km) north of South Georgia Island at 20:36 UT. A broad region surrounding the annularity track will see a partial solar eclipse. Exact times for your location can be obtained from astronomy apps like Starry Night and SkySafari. Proper protective solar filters will be required to view any part of this
solar eclipse.
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