Are you in the path of totality? Total solar eclipse streaks across US on April 8

A total solar eclipse comes to North America on April 8. It will enter over Mexico's Pacific coast, dashing across the U.S. from Texas to Maine before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic.

The peak spectacle will last up to 4 minutes, 28 seconds in the path of total darkness - a 115-mile-wide path that slices across the continent. That's the place to be to experience the full eclipse - most of the rest of the continent outside the path of totality will get a partial eclipse.To celebrate a rare total solar eclipse that won't happen again until 2044, ABC News and Nat Geo will air a two-hour live special on April 8.

North America won't experience totality again until 2033, but only in Alaska. The next isn't until 2044, when totality will be confined to Western Canada, Montana and North Dakota. There won't be another U.S. eclipse, spanning coast to coast, until 2045.The path of total darkness - the path of totality - crosses 15 states.In the U.S.

The total solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow track stretching from Texas to Maine on April 8, 2024. A partial eclipse will be visible throughout all 48 contiguous states.Uvalde, Texas, 1:29 p.m. CDT: 4 minutes, 16 secondsAustin, Texas, 1:36 p.m. CDT: 1 minute, 53 secondsFort Worth, Texas, 1:40 p.m. CDT: 2 minutes, 34 secondsLittle Rock, Arkansas, 1:51 p.m. CDT: 2 minutes, 33 secondsPoplar Bluff, Arkansas, 1:56 p.m. CDT: 4 minutes, 8 secondsCarbondale, Illinois, 1:59 p.m.

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