2024 Solar Eclipse In MI: What You Need To Know For April 8
The only place in Michigan where you might be able to see total totality is Luna Pier, which is located in Monroe County. The 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse will occur on April 8, with most of Michigan expected to see at least 90 percent totality. The only place in Michigan where you can see total totality is Luna Pier in Monroe County. The American Astronomical Society has issued a list of vendors certified as safe eclipse glasses, warning against online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, or Temu for counterfeit glasses. The duration of totality in the United States will be up to 4 minutes and 24 seconds in Eagle Pass, Texas, starting at 1:27 p.m. CDT. The number of people in the path of totality is greater than in 2017, and the eclipse will last twice as long as in the coast-to-coast solar eclipse in 2017. Observers can also use a do-it-yourself pinhole projector to view the sun on a nearby surface. The next total solar eclipse will occur in March 30, 2033, and then in August 2044, with parts of Montana and North Dakota experiencing totality.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Dylan Siwicki in Weather
The only place in Michigan where you might be able to see total totality is Luna Pier, which is located in Monroe County. But most of Michigan will be able to see at least 90 percent totality, as long as the weather cooperates Monday. Below is your complete guide to viewing the sun’s disappearing act in the metro Detroit area and beyond:
When You’ll See What Here are the eclipse times to keep in mind on Monday (all times local): What Will The Weather Be Like? As of Thursday, the National Weather Service forecast doesn't look very promising, as it calls for a chance of rain and moderate cloud cover across most of Michigan, including the Metro Detroit area.
The American Astronomical Society has a list of vendors whose eclipse glasses have been certified as safe. The organization specifically warns against bargain hunting for eclipse glasses from online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay or Temu because counterfeit glasses have infiltrated retail chains. Wherever you acquire protective eyewear, it should meet or exceed the international safety standard of ISO 12312-2:2015.
• Related: You Must Protect Your Eyes, Regardless Of Eclipse Totality: What You Need Keep this in mind, too: Viewing any part of the bright sun through a camera lens, binoculars, or a telescope without a special-purpose solar filter secured over the front of the optics will instantly cause severe eye injury. One other safe way to view the eclipse is with a do-it-yourself pinhole projector that shows the sun on a nearby surface. The American Astronomical Society has pinhole projector DIY instructions. The duration of totality in the United States will be up to 4 minutes and 24 seconds in Eagle Pass, Texas, beginning at 1:27 p.m. CDT. For comparison, the eclipse reaches totality about an hour later, at 3:29 p.m. EDT in Jackman, Maine, and lasts about 3 minutes and 26 seconds. Totality will last twice as long as in the coast-to-coast solar eclipse in 2017, and the number of people in the path of totality — an estimated 32 million people — is much greater.
Besides Texas and Maine, states seeing totality include Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.
• Related: The 2024 Great American Solar Eclipse Is A Really Big Deal: Here’s Why Another thing that makes the 2024 solar eclipse markedly different from the 2017 event is that it’s occurring as the sun is at its peak activity cycle, called solar maximum. In 2017, the sun was approaching minimum. This year’s eclipse opens a unique window for scientists to study the sun’s corona. “The eclipse that we have coming up in 2024 is going to be a very different eclipse from what we saw in 2017 because this corona that we see is going to have much more structure,” Lisa Upton, a solar scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, told Scientific American. The violent solar storms occurring right now are responsible for auroras that dance far outside their Arctic and Antarctic ranges but also carry the potential to knock out internet satellites for months, take down power grids, and interfere with navigation satellites. Right now, these events happen with little warning, but scientists are working on their ability to predict space weather.
• Related: 2024 Guide To Meteor Showers, Solar Eclipse, Supermoons And More When Is The Next Eclipse? It will be March 30, 2033, before another total solar eclipse touches the United States, and that’s only on the tip of Alaska. It’ll be Aug. 12, 2044, before the next eclipse sweeps across the lower 48 states, with parts of Montana and North Dakota experiencing totality.
Legends in ancient cultures attributed the temporary disappearance of the sun to celestial dragons and other mythical creatures, wolves and even giant frogs who either ate the sun or stole it. Among some cultures, the solar eclipse was a foreboding sign the gods were angry or that the siblings the sun and the moon were quarreling, according to timeanddate.com. In many cultures, “eclipse” means to eat. Among the Pomo, an indigenous group of people who lived in the Northwest United States, the literal translation of “eclipse” is “got bit by a bear.” The legend is that a bear mixed it up with the sun and took a bite out of it and then decided to have a slice of the moon as well, causing a lunar eclipse. Scientists and astronomers long ago solved the riddle of the solar eclipse — it’s simply what happens when the moon masks the sun as it passes in front of it. Still, some superstitions remain in modern culture, including that solar eclipses are dangerous for pregnant women and their unborn children, or that food cooked during an eclipse is poisonous. In Italy, though, the superstitions aren’t as gloomy as the sky when the moon blots out the sun. Instead, the eclipse is prime flower planting time; it’s believed they will bloom brighter and more colorful than flowers planted at other times of the year. Other claims about negative effects on human behavior have been debunked by scientists.