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The total eclipse of 23 August 2044

The Moon will cover the Sun completely along a path 461 km wide, crossing 3 countries, in North America. At greatest eclipse, totality will last 2 min 04 s.

Where the shadow will pass
The Moon will cover the Sun completely along a path 461 km wide, crossing 3 countries, in North America. At greatest eclipse, totality will last 2 min 04 s.
The path of the central phase in grey, the centre line in gold, and the curves of the fraction of the Sun covered outside the path. Natural Earth map, Novilune track.
The countries crossed

The shadow will meet them in this order:

Greenland · Canada · United States of America

A country appears here as soon as the path touches its territory, even by a few kilometres. To find out when the next eclipse will pass over your own country, see the country-by-country table.

Before you go

An eclipse is never watched with the naked eye, and an annular eclipse is never watched without protection, not even at maximum. How to watch without burning your eyes

Where these figures come from

The shadow track, the durations and the times are computed by the chain of the Novilune app, on the DE441 ephemeris of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nothing is copied from a catalogue. One uncertainty remains, that of the Earth's rotation: at this date it is ± 13 s, which can shift the path by 3 km from east to west.

The Novilune app draws this eclipse from the place of your choice, with its local times.