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Protect Your Eyes and Make the Most of Your Eclipse Viewing Experience

Astrophotographer Jon Carmichael offers tips on how to safely and successfully record the total solar eclipse with your smart phone in this new video from Prevent Blindness.

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Understanding the Path of the Total Eclipse

The eclipse on April 8th will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States until 2045. Its path of totality in North America will begin in Mexico and pass through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine before ending in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, a partial eclipse will be visible throughout the continental United States.

LOCATION	TOTALITY BEGINS	TOTALITY ENDS
Dallas, TX	1:40 p.m. CDT	1:44 p.m. CDT
Idabel, OK	1:45 p.m. CDT	1:49 p.m. CDT
Little Rock, AR	1:51 p.m. CDT	1:54 p.m. CDT
Poplar Bluff, MO	1:56 p.m. CDT	2:00 p.m. CDT
Paducah, KY	2:00 p.m. CDT	2:02 p.m. CDT
Carbondale, IL	1:59 p.m. CDT	2:03 p.m. CDT
Evansville, IN	2:02 p.m. CDT	2:05 p.m. CDT
Cleveland, OH	3:13 p.m. EDT	3:17 p.m. EDT
Erie, PA	3:16 p.m. EDT	3:20 p.m. EDT
Buffalo, NY	3:18 p.m. EDT	3:22 p.m. EDT
Burlington, VT	3:26 p.m. EDT	3:29 p.m. EDT
Lancaster, NH	3:27 p.m. EDT	3:30 p.m. EDT
Caribou, ME	3:32 p.m. EDT	3:34 p.m. EDT

(Source: science.nasa.gov) For additional details about eclipse times: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/

Eclipse resources at Prevent Blindness:

The April 8, 2024 Great North American Total Solar Eclipse

Getting Ready for the Upcoming Eclipse

Solar Eclipse Eye Safety

Tips for Using Eclipse Glasses

How to Photograph or Record a Solar Eclipse Safely

Eclipse Lesson and Book

Planning or Hosting a Solar Eclipse Viewing Party

Solar Eclipse Playlist on YouTube

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Prevent Blindness also thanks the Delta Gamma Foundation for its generous support for the development of the solar eclipse educational materials. This work is also supported by a Jay M. Pasachoff Solar Eclipse Mini-Grant from the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Eclipse Task Force, which is in turn supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2318745.

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