8 top tips for planning your 2024 total eclipse trip

8 top tips for planning your 2024 total eclipse trip

Feb 15, 2024

From scouting locations to staying safe, here's how to prepare for the total solar eclipse.

We don't have long to wait now, so it's high time you got organized for the rare total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.

A much bigger, grander affair than the annular solar eclipse just gone, this event will include totality — darkness in the day and a chance to see the sun's corona with your naked eyes — but only if you're in exactly the right place at the right time.

For much of the Americas, the event won't be hugely different from what was experienced on Oct. 14. Although the northeast U.S. will this time see a huge partial solar eclipse, it won't be a grand spectacle unless you get to the path of totality.

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