Jamie is an experienced science, technology and travel journalist and stargazer who writes about exploring the night sky, solar and lunar eclipses, moon-gazing, astro-travel, astronomy and space exploration. He is the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com and author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners, and is a senior contributor at Forbes.
How long the total solar eclipse portion of the event lasts depends on where you are along and within the path of totality. The first moment of totality to be seen on the planet will be at 12:38 p.m. EDT and the last at 3:55 p.m. EDT , a sum of 3 hours, 16 minutes and 45 seconds. This is the effect of the moon's umbra, its dark central shadow, which will create a path of totality about 115 miles wide, diagonally across parts of the North American continent. Totality in the U.S.
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