when will a solar eclipse come in california?

Question

When will a solar eclipse come in California?

Answer 1

Hi Raspmenu!

The answer is March 20, 2012. Much of northern California, north of a line from Lake Tahoe to Cape Mendocino and including Redding and Eureka (but excluding Fort Bidwell in the extreme northeast corner) sees an annular eclipse of the sun that evening shortly before sundown. All the rest of the state sees a deep partial eclipse. (This is not a total eclipse anywhere on earth. It does not get dark in the daytime.)

The next total solar eclipse in California will be the morning of August 12, 2045. Like the 2012 annular eclipse, it will be in the northern quarter of the state (but not along the immediate Oregon border region), and the rest of CA will see a deep partial eclipse. The next total eclipse of the sun visible outside northern California will not be for another 99 years, until May 3, 2106.

Answer 2

The next total solar eclipse visible in California will be on August 12, 2045.

The next annular solar eclipse visible in California will be on May 20, 2012. (An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun but is too far away in its orbit to block the whole solar disk. So the edge of the Sun shows all the way around the outside in a ring, or annulus.)

That will also be the date of the next partial solar eclipse visible in California. The eclipse will an annular in northern California, and partial everywhere else in the state.

Answer 3

Most of the time, solar eclipses don't come to you, you have to go to them. Solar eclipses happen a couple of times every year, but they're only visible as total eclipses along a path that's only a few miles wide, so most people have to travel to see one, as the odds are heavily against one happening exactly where you happen to live. Last year I traveled all the way to the Sahara Desert in Libya to see a solar eclipse, and it was really worth it!

It looks like the next total solar eclipse visible from California isn't until 2045, but the eclipse of 2017 will be total in northern Oregon. Partial solar eclipses will be visible before then, but they don't really let you see much.

Here's a map of all total eclipses 2001-2025:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SE2001-25T-2.GIF

Answer 4

The path of totality for the August 21, 2017 eclipse passes just north of California, but it will be visible as a partial eclipse from California. That is the soonest one.

Answer 5

I think in 2012 in the US.