Current events/Eclipses

Revision as of 10:58, 15 April 2009

2010: Easter island!
2012: early morning in Cairns, QLD
2017: Through north america - the point of maximum eclipse is just up the road from Nashville, so I expect some kind of awesome music festival!
2019: Buenos Aires gets skimmed right on sunset.
2024: Mexico, up through Dallas, then Niagra Falls
2026: North spain at Sunset (Madrid, you just barely miss out)
2027: Gibralter Straight, the Nile (just north of Aswan Dam) and also Mecca
2028, 2030, 2037, 2038: four total eclipses in Australia in a decade. Including a bullseye through Sydney (2028), and a skim shot on Brisbane (2037).
2042: Annular eclipse in Australia (through NT (including Elliott) down through Canberra (Lake George!?)
2045: Florida (Cape Canaveral!), The Bahamas, Haiti
2053: Straights of Gibraltar, just outside Mecca

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+;2028, 2030, 2037, 2038:four total eclipses in Australia in a decade. Including a bullseye through Sydney (2028), and a skim shot on Brisbane (2037).
+;2042: Annular eclipse in Australia (through NT (including Elliott) down through Canberra (Lake George!?)
+;2045: Florida (Cape Canaveral!), The Bahamas, Haiti
+;2053: Straights of Gibraltar, just outside Mecca