Are you going to be watching tomorrow’s solar eclipse from Roosevelt Island?
According to the American Museum Of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium:Tomorrow a total eclipse will crawl across the continental U.S. for the first time in nearly a century!
Starting around 1:15 p.m. E.D.T., a 70-mile-wide shadow cast by the moon will make landfall in Oregon and finish its path in South Carolina at around 2:49 p.m. E.D.T. Though only a lucky few will be in the direct path of totality check here to see if you will be the view from anywhere in North America will be incredible….
NYC Parks adds:… While New York is not in this path of totality, we will be able to see the Moon cover more than 70 percent of the Sun….
From The Twitterverse:… Although a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on Earth about every 18 months, the last time the United States experienced a coat-to-coast total solar eclipse was 191899 years ago! After August 21, the next coast-to-coast total solar eclipse is due on August 12, 2045.
NYC hasnt experienced a total eclipse since 1925. The next total eclipse in NYC will take place on May 1, 2079. We’ll experience another partial eclipse on April 8, 2024.
So, if youre planning on getting a good look at the Great American Eclipse, here are the details on when and where to view the solar eclipse in New York City:
When
Monday, August 21 at 2:44 p.m. The best time to view the eclipse is between 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. (weather permitting). The actual event occurs at 2:44 p.m. The eclipse will last only three minutes, so be prepared!…
