Cool Moon Facts by Whip

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8 April 2024 New Moon, 0% lit

The Great North American Eclipse

The Moon's shadow came ashore in Mazatlan, crossed Mexico, the United States and Canada, and left the continent at Newfoundland.

Totality ran up to four minutes twenty-eight seconds, nearly twice the 2017 eclipse, because the Moon was close to perigee and its disc comfortably overlapped the Sun's. The next one to cross this much of the United States is in 2045.

Date
8 April 2024
Moon computed for
15:00 local time, UTC−5
Phase
New Moon
Illuminated
0%

Source: NASA eclipse bulletins (opens in a new tab)

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