All of North America and Central America experienced a partial solar eclipse, with millions of people flocking to areas within the path of totality to witness the event.
All of North America and Central America experienced a partial solar eclipse , but only those located within the path of totality — an approximately 115-mile wide andThhe sun reaches totality during the eclipse on April 08, 2024 in Houlton, Maine. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the" path of totality " in order to experience a total solar eclipse . During the event, the moon will pass in between the sun and the Earth, appearing to block the sun.
The apparent size of the moon in the sky — and whether it can completely cover the sun's disk during an eclipse — depends on the moon's distance from Earth. The moon has a slightly elliptical orbit around Earth, so at two points each month, it is farthest and closest to Earth, making the moon appear slightly smaller and slightly larger than average in our sky.
"I compare this to a tailgate atmosphere," said Paul Ruff, who traveled from Iowa City, IA to Poplar Bluff, told Loeffler."People are very nice, sharing their equipment, showing you what they’re seeing." Space.com's Daisy Dobrijevic traveled to Rochester, New York, from the U.K. to see the moon begin to cover the sun at around 14:15 EDT . The event was slightly muted by uncooperative cloud coverage. Dobrijevic noted that even with the clouds, onlookers got to see some fascinating eclipse effects as the obscuration of the moon caused the clouds to change hue. The cloud coverage didn't mute the crowd as the eclipse began either.
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