Millions of spectators in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are eagerly anticipating the total solar eclipse.
An amateur astronomer prepares her telescope a day before a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Sunday, April 7, 2024. – Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the U.S. to Canada eagerly awaited Monday's celestial sensation — a total eclipse of the sun — even aswas expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
The cliff-hanging uncertainty added to the drama. Rain or shine,"it’s just about sharing the experience with other people,” said Chris Lomas from Gotham, England, who was staying at a sold-out trailer resort outside Dallas, the biggest city in totality's path. The out-of-sync darkness lasts up to 4 minutes, 28 seconds. That's almost twice as long as it was during the U.S. coast-to-coast eclipse seven years ago because the moon is closer to Earth. It will be another 21 years before the U.S. sees another total solar eclipse on this scale.
It will take just 1 hour, 40 minutes for the moon's shadow to race more than 4,000 miles across the continent.is needed with proper eclipse glasses and filters to look at the sun, except when it ducks completely out of sight during an eclipse.
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