Current events/Eclipses

Solar eclipses I'm keeping in mind and approximately watching out for...

2010

Easter island!

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2010Jul11Tgoogle.html

2012

13 november - 5-8am in Cairns, QLD

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2012Nov13Tgoogle.html

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!

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

2019

Buenos Aires gets skimmed right on sunset.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2019Jul02Tgoogle.html

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

Links

• NASA Eclipse Web Site
• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEdecade/SEdecade2021.html
• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEdecade/SEdecade2031.html
• image showing 2001-2020 solar eclipses
• image showing 2021-2040 solar eclipses