We still got these super cool eclipse shirts in our store. Check them out! store.dftba.com/collections/minuteearth/products/solar-eclipses-across-the-solar-system-tee
When I was a kid growing up in Christchurch, I was always bummed out to check the solar eclipse charts and there to never be ANY at all. This video made me feel so vindicated!
I live in Montevideo, Uruguay, and I feel your pain, brother. We almost never get solar eclipses, and when we do, it's usually only an annular or partial one. Just last night I was looking at some eclipse charts, to see if I could be lucky to see one during my lifetime, and there's a single (annular) eclipse that will be visible from only a tiny part of my country in February of 2027, and then that's it. The next eclipse we'll see will be (finally!) a total one in January 2103 (but people living then will be lucky, because in the span of 15 years there will be 3 total eclipses that will be visible from at least some parts of the country).
It hadn’t occurred to me that the Earth doesn’t see as many full eclipses in perihelion compared to aphelion, but given how close the moon and sun’s apparent sizes are on average this makes total sense. Thanks for teaching me something new!
I'm really looking forward to this. 2017 was an amazing experience. I've seen a couple partial eclipses as a child, and I used to think it was just silly history people getting superstitious about the sky getting dark, but even knowing exactly what was going on and why in 2017, it was IMMEDIATELY clear why people thought it was supernatural. Everything got colder (which I think was what caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand up), sounds around me changed, and the lighting wasn't just dark but an ethereal twilight that was unnatural in a hard to describe way. SmarterEveryDay has a video on the upcoming eclipse with Dr. Gordon Telpun who published an Eclipse Timer app (I used it in 2017 too). In the video he also shows stations he's setting up for the eclipse to see certain phenomena that you can replicate for yourself to see more out of this 2024 eclipse.
I really wish I could go to see this one. It's even closer to me than the last one was, and the totality is longer. But I got to have that amazing experience once, so I don't feel as bad about it.
Yeah, that experience back in 2017 was something else. I went with my grandfather down to SC right before I started college, and it was surreal. It was like 90+ outside and then it suddenly dropped to a much cooler 80. What I remember the most vividly is that it reminded me of the black hole in Interstellar. It was mesmerizing. I'm a little concerned about Monday as there is supposed to be a lot of clouds in Texas that day, but we will see. I'm super excited to see it again.
As someone recently blessed with perfect totality of the recent eclipse, the Closest thing i can compare that twilight to is a clear night sky bathed in the brightest moonlight. A faint, but noticeable, dark blue glow. Brighter than a full moon, but not by a whole lot.
So in Australian summers the sun is closer to earth. That explains a lot about why Australia sucks. Looking it up, the specific numbers are 4% closer and 8.5% brighter.
If you mean the horrible summers here, I think another reason for Australia’s arid climate is because it’s close to the equator, and the equator gets a lot of heat from the sun, but other places near the equator aren’t arid, and I think Australia’s always been like this, so idk what happened
@@magentamonster yeah, so have to see if definitions count those happened in ocean or not. The calculations might came from simulations and not sure if it did count those
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@@陳柏廷-u5pit obviously count those. They're counting eclipses, not interrsted in how many people got to watch it
Did you know that flat earthers actually live on a flat earth? And all this while we thought they didn't know the shape of their earth, but they do. And we globe earthers are on a globe earth. There's actually many earths. Everyone lives on an earth that matches their ideas of what the earth is like. So there is a globe earth, an azimuthal equdistant earth, a Mercator earth etc. And there are solar eclipses on the flat earths, though they may work differently from on the globe earth. The reason all the earths can connect to the internet is due to secret space technology. Flat earthers are aliens, you see. But the government doesn't want us to know they discovered aliens, so they pretend the aliens are on our planet. This is why we didn't hear of flat earthers before the internet. Of course this is a joke.
I live about an hour north of a site that will get the total eclipse but I have toddlers who can't keep the glasses on and not sure what I'm going to do. Think I'll still drive to the location and cover the car windows with blankets to keep them safe so I can still experience it.
Great video and clear explanation! I know it isn't as relevant to the point of this video, but I wish you'd talked about the moon's elliptical orbit too, since that has a much more significant impact on whether we see a total or annular eclipse. The variation in angular size of the moon is almost 5 times greater than that of the sun.
0:10 It's not strictly a North-South divide. The frequency of eclipses can vary widely within both hemispheres 2:17 Eclipse chasers often consider factors like accessibility, weather conditions, and local infrastructure when choosing viewing locations
Christchurch may not be getting a total eclipse for a while but just down the road in Dunedin and Queenstown they'll be experiencing one in July 2028!!
Solar eclipse chances usually depend on landmass. As a South Korean, I have a total solar eclipse chance in my country at September 2035, but that's only visible near east-end of DMZ, while North Korea region is totally blocked. International airlines are the only way to catch the events.
I thought about driving down to Carbondale from the STL Metro East, but decided to just go to my aunt's in Sparta. 3 min 45 sec totality vs 4 1/2 mins was good enough for me.
So to max out a total solar eclipse, it needs to take place in the northern summer during a supermoon, and it needs to be visible in the arctic. That's where you get eight-minute eclipses. Boy, did ATLA miss some information.
I travelled to see the eclipse and it was super cloudy when we got there. It was still neat though. We were close enough to the northern edge of the band/shadow that I could see blue sky to the north and a ring of “sunset” from west to east with only a thin sliver in the southern part of the sky.
The reason for annual and total solar eclipses aren't only because of Earth's orbital distance, moon also has a elliptical orbit. The closet point to us from the moon called Perigee and the farthest is Apogee (similar to Earth's perihelion and aphelion). Because of Earths orbit is almost circular (with an eccentricity of 0.0167) so it's effectiveness to eclipse being annual and total is pretty low. On the other hand Moon's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0549. It is moderate elliptical but hold power to create different types of eclipse (Total or Annual). More eccentricity close to 1 means more elliptical orbit and close to 0 means more circular orbit. So the reason why total solar eclipse or annual solar eclipse happen is because of moons orbital eccentricity (although the Earth's orbital eccentricity also play a slight role here but it create not that much difference in distance to lead different types of eclipse). Here's the reason why total eclipses aren't always the case: The Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees compared to Earth's orbit. Usually, the Moon passes above or below Earth's path, casting no shadow on Earth. Twice a year, the tilt in the Moon's orbit aligns with Earth's orbit, creating a brief window for eclipses to occur (eclipse season). But because the Ascending node and descending node also moving or changes it's position, thats why we see eclipses at different times of the year. During this eclipse season, a total eclipse only happens if the Sun, Moon, and Earth align perfectly, with the Moon being close enough (near at perigee ) to Earth to completely cover the Sun. If the Moon is farther away (or near at apogee ), it appears smaller than the Sun, causing an annular eclipse where a ring of sunlight is visible around the Moon. BTW your video is so much informative about "why Northern hemisphere has the most eclipse or most total eclipse "❤
Another big reason is two thirds of land is in the northern hemisphere.
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Prediction: Another video pointed out that there is more land in the north. More land equals more people. So there are more opportunities to see an eclipse in the north
@@bryanfongo327 420 is mathematically a special number as it’s a multiple of 60 and there’s 420 seconds in 7 minutes. That’s about the only thing special about 420. On the other hand, 69 is just an ordinary number just like 68 & 70. I’m not on a stage.
@@ivanjermakov Earth's axis actually precesses, taking about 26,000 years to complete a cycle. So, halfway around, 13,000 years from now, the axis will point the other way, assuming Earth's orbit doesn't also precess (which it does)
@@lightlingzooma-69Speak for yourself. I've gone 16,328 days without dying so statistically I'm fairly certain I'm immortal. And with how gas prices keep going up, I need to start saving now if I want to afford to go see the 15134 AD eclipse in what's left of Perth.
I go to college in Carbondale. We’re making such a big deal here about it being our 2nd one in 7 years. We’re rebranding the town as the “Eclipse Crossroad of America”
The main reason for the difference between total and annular eclipses is because of the moon’s orbit being closer or farther away. The moon can be over 25,000 miles closer at its perigee (closest point to earth) than at its apogee (farthest point from earth). Earth’s distance from the sun plays a part too, but the main reason is the moon’s distance from earth
This changes on a roughly 20,000 year pattern (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsidal_precession) due to a combination of the precession of equinoxes and precession of earth's perihelion. In 10,000 years or so the North-hemisphere would be at an disadvantage and in 5,000 years it would be roughly 1/2 and 1/2. If we consider 1/4 of this cycle to be when the Dec. solstice is close enough to the perihelion for this effect to be important then we are averaging over roughly 5000 years for which the N-hemisphere will have a paltry 15 total eclipses (for a given location) and the southern hemisphere will have only 9 for a given location. This assumes I can do math in my head which is always questionable.
@@rosiefay7283 Who wouldn't be? Just a couple hours ago there was a downpour that flooded my front yard... I'm used to miserable weather, but that was quite an event for as long as it lasted.
There's another reason as well. For a total solar eclipse to be observed, there has to be an observer, a human being, who lives or goes about on land rather than the ocean. There is more land in the northern hemisphere than the southern, so more eclipses are observed in the northern hemisphere.
@@ProsecutorZekrom The eclipses over the open sea are far enough in the future that there would be time to arrange a cruise voyage or voyages to places of totality. Of course, no weather guarantees! Flights would be a more weatherproof option, though again storms can be unpredictable.
Unless it’s a total eclipse. You can only see the other kinds with special glasses. You might not have noticed a past eclipse because the sky only dimmed a bit
The next 15 years will be a treat. Total eclipses over Sydney(2028), Southern Brisbane/Gold Coast(2037), West of Brisbane(2030), and Northern Victoria/East Gippsland(2038).
If the ratio of distance to size was exact then the umbra on the ground would be a point and not an area. However, given the moon is slowly moving away, This should actually happen at some point. Has anyone calculated that time frame.
Moon orbit is also elliptical, so even earth is closest to the sun, the moon can still cover the sun so it can still cause a total solar eclipse if the moon at its perigee
Yes, because the orientation of the lunar orbit's major axis (the line connecting its perigee and apogee) rotates once every 8.85 years. This means that if the new Moon happens to be at perigee during the southern hemisphere summer, that will have shifted to the northern hemisphere summer less than 5 years later.
Isn't there some precession of the tendency for summer in the North to be farther from the sun? Is the data you're using to show north gets more solar eclipses than south just an artefact of the short period humans have been on the planet?
That is due to the tilt of the earth which causes summer and winter, in the summer the north is tilted towards the sun, while the reverse happens for the south
@@Itakebigcraps You're right about that, but he's describing how presently in our northern summer the earth is actually a little farther away from the sun, with the pathway around the sun being an ellipse, not a true circle. It is counterintuitive but that longer distance has a minimal effect on climate compared to the huge effect of tilt on seasonal change. I'm asking if there is a slow creep of that effect over time.
I’ve seen the annular 5mos ago, i woke up, & it looked like it was burnt orange out. Many stopped & looked up at it Then the totality eclipse recently. Of course it went dark, the wildlife was screaming in the pond, & birds went away, street lights came on, etc it was an impressive show. It was a big deal here, no one was driving out, & I was in middle of moving, thank god someone gave me glasses lol & happen to be in the path. Then I saw it going up, north from us, Canada. I didn’t see the moon until the other night 🥰
HAPPY because New Zealand is on your map. #Mapswithoutnewzealand SAD because we don't get as many eclipses. HAPPY because your map isn't the despicable Mercator projection. SAD because we didn't get to see this eclipse. HAPPY because you mentioned my home town, Christchurch! SAD because I will be very old in 2431. HAPPY because we are getting a good one in Queenstown in the middle of 2028 - which I will travel for. Wow - what a roller coaster.
This video makes it sound like in summer the southern hemisphere could only have annular eclipses due to the elliptic orbit of Earth. Of course, the main ingredient in distinguishing total and annular is how far the moon is on HIS elliptic path. This makes a much bigger difference.
That is true, but it just makes a total eclipse more likely when the Moon is close to its perigee, which doesn't favour any of the Earth's hemispheres over the other.
Wow, i wasnt wrong in my perpection that Brazil 🇧🇷 RARELY has total eclipses.😢. The last one happened years before i was BORN and the next one Will only happen in 2045. Past years we had a annular eclipse ONLY in the border of the northeast so i couldnt see It, ALL i Saw was the Sun getting a bit weaker. ITS curious How It had the INVERSE design of yesterdays eclipse in United States and México. Came DOWN by the west coast. 🇧🇷 Oh well, i guess were not that important 😢
It should also be noted that eclipses ONLY happen on or around the Autumnal or Vernal equinoxes. The sun and the moon are not on the same plane in the sky; so the moon may dip below the sun’s relative position or it may dip above the sun’s position. However on either of the equinoxes the sun and moon’s paths meet, which often makes a solar eclipse happen somewhere in the world.
The moon orbit is rotating toghter with the points sun passes moon orbit on the sky aka nodes with 18 year cycle, so eclipse can happen at any month of year not just equinox
Why? This eclipse is happening in American units. 😛 Did you know that every time someone complains in RUclips comments about units not being in metric, we make a new random unit of measurement? For you, we created the slorp, equivalent to 58.33186181318 decibels.
It is variations in the moon’s distance from the Earth that make the difference between annular and total. The variations in the size of the sun are not enough to determine that.
That's true, but regarding total solar eclipses the Moon's elliptical orbit doesn't favour any of the Earth's hemispheres on a century time scale since the major axis of the Moon's orbit makes a full revolution over only 8.85 years. If, for instance, the Moon's perigee at some point coincides with its new phase during the southern hemisphere summer, that will have shifted to the northern hemisphere summer in less than 5 years.
Actully video is wrong, moon orbit is also not perfect distance to earth and has grater effect on eclipse magnitude then sun apperent size, its 18% diffrence. You can specially see that in hybrid eclipses when sun and moon sizes align perfecly and due to earth curveture total eclipse can turn to annular eclipse closer to sunrise or sunset
Moon orbit it self is orbiting earth with 18 year cycle, that mean so called nodes point where sun and earth shadow passes moon orbit on sky, are orbiting too and eclipse season in each year moves with it. Earth shadow is in opposite side of sun, when sun passes the node shadow passes opposite node, so lunar eclipse happens eather after or before or even in between (then they usally shalow) solar eclipse depending how things align, so they tied toghther
That would be true if the Moon's orbital plane was close to the Earth's equatorial plane, which is the case with many other moons relative to their parent planets. However, the Moon's orbital plane is tilted 5° relative to the Earth's orbital plane (known as the ecliptic), not its equator, meaning that eclipses can happen throughout the year.
Where I live we're only getting like 92% totality, but I can't even complain because I got to travel in 2017 to see full totally in South Carolina. Oh, big mad that I can't have a once in a lifetime experience more than once????
Well, before getting into the video, I will suggest a solution to the riddle at the beginning. There are just as many solar eclipses viewable from the southern hemisphere as the northern hemisphere, but you would have to be out in the middle of the ocean to see a lot of them. Now I’ve got that answer locked in, I’ll view the rest of the video.
yes. the earth is closest to the sun in the first week of january, however, that drifts over the years, meaning that sometime, the earth will be closest to the sun in the northern summer
i bet the mention of new zealand getting a total eclipse once every 420 years and the country seeing its first eclipse on 69 ce is a reference to a meme
I would be interested to know why the US seems to get so many eclipses. I’m at 55N in the UK and haven’t seen an eclipse in my lifetime. The US had two eclipses in the last two years. Your video says that the further north you are the more likely you are to have an eclipse. So why so many in the US?
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Compare Tianjin Vs Beirut in your next video🎉
Mine should arrive today!
From 2028 to 2038 Australia will get to see 4 total eclipses, check your data, I'm sure I'm correct.
i couldn't see the solar eclipse in april this year because i live in california :')
Fun fact: New Zealand was completely uninhabited in 69 CE, as even the Māoris would take another 1200 years to arrive.
Hence they aren’t really indigenous. If they’re indigenous, then Sephardic Jews are indigenous to Spain.
@@EliStettner so nobody is indigenous except Ethiopians? Humans always got somewhere from somewhere else.
The giant birbs had the eclipse all to themselves.
@@EliStettner then your moms indigenous to me
@@EliStettnerthe indigenous people are usually interpreted as the ones who've been there the longest up to modern day I guess
When I was a kid growing up in Christchurch, I was always bummed out to check the solar eclipse charts and there to never be ANY at all. This video made me feel so vindicated!
One is gonna pass through Otago in like 2031 if I remember correctly. Guess ill make a trip of it
@@Me-ui1zy2028.
@@Me-ui1zyThere is one in 2028 that goes straight through the centre of Dunedin. I live in Dunedin and I am so happy! I hope it's not cloudy though
I live in Montevideo, Uruguay, and I feel your pain, brother. We almost never get solar eclipses, and when we do, it's usually only an annular or partial one. Just last night I was looking at some eclipse charts, to see if I could be lucky to see one during my lifetime, and there's a single (annular) eclipse that will be visible from only a tiny part of my country in February of 2027, and then that's it. The next eclipse we'll see will be (finally!) a total one in January 2103 (but people living then will be lucky, because in the span of 15 years there will be 3 total eclipses that will be visible from at least some parts of the country).
In Delaware, the April 8th 2024 solar eclipse is the only solar eclipse there is for CENTURIES. So yeah, I will also feel your pain as well.
It hadn’t occurred to me that the Earth doesn’t see as many full eclipses in perihelion compared to aphelion, but given how close the moon and sun’s apparent sizes are on average this makes total sense. Thanks for teaching me something new!
Reasons for Australians to be sad:
* Slow internet
* Hot weather
* Deadly wildlife
* Ominous dust storms
* Fewer total eclipses
But that’s just on average! Australia will have 5 total solar eclipses and 1 annular within the span of 16 years! In 2023, 2028, 2030, 2037, and 2038!
Also we have a huge blob of deserts in the dead middle and price of living is very ducking high especially for Sydney and Melbourne lol
@@SleepyPanda-co3iyAn Australian that doesn't like swearing? That's odd
And 2028, 2037 and 2038 are coast to coast.
Box Jellyfish, Stonefish, salt water crocodiles, Sydney Funnel Web Spiders and gympie-gympie
As someone from Christchurch, I was hyped when you said the name, then in ruins when you said how long its gonna be until our next one.
There is the path of totality down here in Dunners in 2028! Just take a 4 hour trip and hope it isn't cloudy!
lol same
Prolly you’re great great great great grandkids might watch it
@@RaffleE46 that's only like 100 and a bit years
North island is going to get two total eclipses in the years 2037 and 2038 respectively
I love how the equator is reffered to as "This Line"
If there's the line we can draw on the globe, equator surely is The Line.
Technically it's a line. And he pointed towards it when explaining, that makes it the equator.
So you telling me that Christchurch got its last eclipse in year 69 and gets them on average every 420 years? Dank
the sun is sending us a sign...
Haha funi 69 420 smegema alpa nigachad 🗿🍷💀🤨😳🥵🔥👇
(SARCASM)
@attackehhh there is no sign. It's physics.
@@attackeh It's a NO SMOKING sign. They haven't gotten another in nearly two thousand years.
Speaking of dank there was a total solar eclipse over New Zealand on 04/10/69AD, had it been 10 days later it would've been 4/20/69
I'm really looking forward to this. 2017 was an amazing experience. I've seen a couple partial eclipses as a child, and I used to think it was just silly history people getting superstitious about the sky getting dark, but even knowing exactly what was going on and why in 2017, it was IMMEDIATELY clear why people thought it was supernatural. Everything got colder (which I think was what caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand up), sounds around me changed, and the lighting wasn't just dark but an ethereal twilight that was unnatural in a hard to describe way.
SmarterEveryDay has a video on the upcoming eclipse with Dr. Gordon Telpun who published an Eclipse Timer app (I used it in 2017 too). In the video he also shows stations he's setting up for the eclipse to see certain phenomena that you can replicate for yourself to see more out of this 2024 eclipse.
I really wish I could go to see this one. It's even closer to me than the last one was, and the totality is longer. But I got to have that amazing experience once, so I don't feel as bad about it.
Yeah, that experience back in 2017 was something else. I went with my grandfather down to SC right before I started college, and it was surreal.
It was like 90+ outside and then it suddenly dropped to a much cooler 80.
What I remember the most vividly is that it reminded me of the black hole in Interstellar. It was mesmerizing.
I'm a little concerned about Monday as there is supposed to be a lot of clouds in Texas that day, but we will see. I'm super excited to see it again.
@@troybaxter Yeah, I'm seeing clouds in the forecast for almost the entire path of totality. I really hope it ends up clear for all of us.
As someone recently blessed with perfect totality of the recent eclipse, the Closest thing i can compare that twilight to is a clear night sky bathed in the brightest moonlight.
A faint, but noticeable, dark blue glow. Brighter than a full moon, but not by a whole lot.
So in Australian summers the sun is closer to earth. That explains a lot about why Australia sucks. Looking it up, the specific numbers are 4% closer and 8.5% brighter.
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LOL!
Btw I literally refreshed the page and saw that you edited the comment, LOL x2!
doesnt really affect heat much at all though
@@smoceany9478Yeah, direct sunlight is basically all that matters.
If you mean the horrible summers here,
I think another reason for Australia’s arid climate is because it’s close to the equator, and the equator gets a lot of heat from the sun, but other places near the equator aren’t arid, and I think Australia’s always been like this, so idk what happened
My school is trying to go and see the eclipse this year really excited to have a opportunity to see it for the first time!
It's super awesome! Here's hoping for clear skies for you!
Did you see it
So, how was it?
@@MacAnters awesome you have to see it
@@Patrick-Mckinney I did, in '99, but as I was 4, I don't remember much of it
It follows that there is a N-S disparity in annual annular eclipses, and it is the inverse of that in total ones.
First thought I thought the answer would be like there is more land in north hemisphere than south.... 🤔🤔
This would be a reason as well, looking at maps for other eclipses and there are some that basically land all on the southern seas
Eclipses happen even if there's sea. It may be harder for people to see them then, though.
@@magentamonster yeah, so have to see if definitions count those happened in ocean or not. The calculations might came from simulations and not sure if it did count those
@@陳柏廷-u5pit obviously count those. They're counting eclipses, not interrsted in how many people got to watch it
@@magentamonster
Right. The original poster made a mental error and figures it out quick.
Flat eathers are doomed.
They are domed.
@@babilon6097 Huh huh huh.👏
Did you know that flat earthers actually live on a flat earth? And all this while we thought they didn't know the shape of their earth, but they do. And we globe earthers are on a globe earth. There's actually many earths. Everyone lives on an earth that matches their ideas of what the earth is like. So there is a globe earth, an azimuthal equdistant earth, a Mercator earth etc. And there are solar eclipses on the flat earths, though they may work differently from on the globe earth.
The reason all the earths can connect to the internet is due to secret space technology. Flat earthers are aliens, you see. But the government doesn't want us to know they discovered aliens, so they pretend the aliens are on our planet. This is why we didn't hear of flat earthers before the internet.
Of course this is a joke.
They're so rare that a solar eclipse is paradoxically a bright and enlightening moment.
It's so rare the odds are astronomical.
Riffing off this, one could argue that the dark ages and the enlightenment period are named for their attitude towards solar eclipses.
I live about an hour north of a site that will get the total eclipse but I have toddlers who can't keep the glasses on and not sure what I'm going to do. Think I'll still drive to the location and cover the car windows with blankets to keep them safe so I can still experience it.
duct tape and zip ties
Garbage bags just in case
How do you keep them from staring at the sun on non-eclipse days?
Great video and clear explanation! I know it isn't as relevant to the point of this video, but I wish you'd talked about the moon's elliptical orbit too, since that has a much more significant impact on whether we see a total or annular eclipse. The variation in angular size of the moon is almost 5 times greater than that of the sun.
someone send this my schools education board, this is really cool
0:10 It's not strictly a North-South divide. The frequency of eclipses can vary widely within both hemispheres
2:17 Eclipse chasers often consider factors like accessibility, weather conditions, and local infrastructure when choosing viewing locations
Christchurch may not be getting a total eclipse for a while but just down the road in Dunedin and Queenstown they'll be experiencing one in July 2028!!
Which is crazy because it's also in the middle of winter. Fortunately in my experience our winters tend to be less cloudy compared to summer.
Solar eclipse chances usually depend on landmass. As a South Korean, I have a total solar eclipse chance in my country at September 2035, but that's only visible near east-end of DMZ, while North Korea region is totally blocked. International airlines are the only way to catch the events.
The thre most important factors to an eclipse; Location, Location, Location.
As someone with family in Carbondale, IL, I was beyond blessed to get both in less than a decade. Perfect weather both times too!
I thought about driving down to Carbondale from the STL Metro East, but decided to just go to my aunt's in Sparta. 3 min 45 sec totality vs 4 1/2 mins was good enough for me.
So to max out a total solar eclipse, it needs to take place in the northern summer during a supermoon, and it needs to be visible in the arctic. That's where you get eight-minute eclipses.
Boy, did ATLA miss some information.
It would be a super new moon
Longest possible total eclipse is 7 minutes 32 seconds
@@galoomba5559Unless you're on a Concorde or Blackbird
@@benn454 well, unless you're moving in general i suppose
I travelled to see the eclipse and it was super cloudy when we got there. It was still neat though. We were close enough to the northern edge of the band/shadow that I could see blue sky to the north and a ring of “sunset” from west to east with only a thin sliver in the southern part of the sky.
The reason for annual and total solar eclipses aren't only because of Earth's orbital distance, moon also has a elliptical orbit. The closet point to us from the moon called Perigee and the farthest is Apogee (similar to Earth's perihelion and aphelion). Because of Earths orbit is almost circular (with an eccentricity of 0.0167) so it's effectiveness to eclipse being annual and total is pretty low. On the other hand Moon's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0549. It is moderate elliptical but hold power to create different types of eclipse (Total or Annual). More eccentricity close to 1 means more elliptical orbit and close to 0 means more circular orbit. So the reason why total solar eclipse or annual solar eclipse happen is because of moons orbital eccentricity (although the Earth's orbital eccentricity also play a slight role here but it create not that much difference in distance to lead different types of eclipse).
Here's the reason why total eclipses aren't always the case:
The Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees compared to Earth's orbit.
Usually, the Moon passes above or below Earth's path, casting no shadow on Earth.
Twice a year, the tilt in the Moon's orbit aligns with Earth's orbit, creating a brief window for eclipses to occur (eclipse season). But because the Ascending node and descending node also moving or changes it's position, thats why we see eclipses at different times of the year.
During this eclipse season, a total eclipse only happens if the Sun, Moon, and Earth align perfectly, with the Moon being close enough (near at perigee ) to Earth to completely cover the Sun. If the Moon is farther away (or near at apogee ), it appears smaller than the Sun, causing an annular eclipse where a ring of sunlight is visible around the Moon. BTW your video is so much informative about "why Northern hemisphere has the most eclipse or most total eclipse "❤
Indeed: " So the reason why total solar eclipse or annual solar eclipse happen is because of moons orbital eccentricity" 0:42 is rather misleading
I missed a partial solar eclipse because I had too much fun playing minecraft with my friends. I will never forget that moment.
Australia is crying except that one spot due to get 2 eclipses within a 6mth time frame
I saw my first total eclipse with the great eclipse of 2024 in Texas. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life
Another big reason is two thirds of land is in the northern hemisphere.
Prediction: Another video pointed out that there is more land in the north. More land equals more people. So there are more opportunities to see an eclipse in the north
True, but that doesn't change the _actual_ number of solar eclipses in the north vs south.
I went to upstate NY to see the total eclipse and it was absolutely unbelievable! Looking to maybe travel for the next one 👀
So in Christchurch, where they should see an eclipse on average every 420 years, they had their last eclipse in the year 69?
Nice
There’s nothing special about the number 69. It just so happens that Christchurch had the previous total Solar Eclipse in 69 AD.
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@@bryanfongo327 420 is mathematically a special number as it’s a multiple of 60 and there’s 420 seconds in 7 minutes. That’s about the only thing special about 420. On the other hand, 69 is just an ordinary number just like 68 & 70. I’m not on a stage.
How long before it flips and the southern summer is the distant one and northern summers are close?
Never, assuming Earth's axial tilt is constant.
@@ivanjermakov Earth's axis actually precesses, taking about 26,000 years to complete a cycle. So, halfway around, 13,000 years from now, the axis will point the other way, assuming Earth's orbit doesn't also precess (which it does)
@@Inversion10080yeah so basically you don’t have to worry about it
@@lightlingzooma-69Speak for yourself. I've gone 16,328 days without dying so statistically I'm fairly certain I'm immortal. And with how gas prices keep going up, I need to start saving now if I want to afford to go see the 15134 AD eclipse in what's left of Perth.
I think the orbit precesses, like Mercury.@@ivanjermakov
I go to college in Carbondale. We’re making such a big deal here about it being our 2nd one in 7 years. We’re rebranding the town as the “Eclipse Crossroad of America”
Is there a website that tells you when the last recorded eclipse at a particular place happened?
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JSEX/JSEX-index.html
The main reason for the difference between total and annular eclipses is because of the moon’s orbit being closer or farther away. The moon can be over 25,000 miles closer at its perigee (closest point to earth) than at its apogee (farthest point from earth). Earth’s distance from the sun plays a part too, but the main reason is the moon’s distance from earth
Another point to mention is the precession of the earths axis. So this this will basically flip, albeit in a timespan of around 12-13k years.
And yet, Australia is going to get 4 eclipses in the span of 10 years
Except Australia, they get tons.
Imagine living in the 1600s and seeing a solar eclipse, what a traumatizing experience it would be
This changes on a roughly 20,000 year pattern (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsidal_precession) due to a combination of the precession of equinoxes and precession of earth's perihelion. In 10,000 years or so the North-hemisphere would be at an disadvantage and in 5,000 years it would be roughly 1/2 and 1/2. If we consider 1/4 of this cycle to be when the Dec. solstice is close enough to the perihelion for this effect to be important then we are averaging over roughly 5000 years for which the N-hemisphere will have a paltry 15 total eclipses (for a given location) and the southern hemisphere will have only 9 for a given location. This assumes I can do math in my head which is always questionable.
I love scrolling through RUclips and finding answers to questions that I didn't even know that I had!
I've seen 2 solar eclipses. Once in 2000 when my parents were stationed in Europe. Second time was in 2017 when I was working in Yellowstone.
i think you mean 1999 which was last total eclipse going thru middle of europe
This was great explanations on the suns relation with north south and monthly orbit regardless of eclipses
Well, I guess that's one good thing about living in the UK! Well, given there are no clouds for once 😅
Except there were indeed clouds --- a heavy rainstorm --- over Cornwall on the morning of 11 Aug 1999. And yes, 25 years later, I'm still bitter.
@@rosiefay7283 Who wouldn't be? Just a couple hours ago there was a downpour that flooded my front yard...
I'm used to miserable weather, but that was quite an event for as long as it lasted.
Unreal shoehorning of 420/69 into my pre-eclipse watching.
Not to mention that most of the earths landmass is in the northern hemisphere.
And on top of all that there is more land mass on the North Hemisphere and more people to witness the eclipses too.
There's another reason as well. For a total solar eclipse to be observed, there has to be an observer, a human being, who lives or goes about on land rather than the ocean. There is more land in the northern hemisphere than the southern, so more eclipses are observed in the northern hemisphere.
You could observe one that goes over the sea by being on a boat or plane that goes through the path of totality.
@@ProsecutorZekrom The eclipses over the open sea are far enough in the future that there would be time to arrange a cruise voyage or voyages to places of totality. Of course, no weather guarantees! Flights would be a more weatherproof option, though again storms can be unpredictable.
I got to see the 2017 eclipse when I lived in Athens, TN. I wanted to go down to Texas to see this years, but I’m too busy to go
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As an Australian, I’ve never seen an eclipse
Unless it’s a total eclipse.
You can only see the other kinds with special glasses.
You might not have noticed a past eclipse because the sky only dimmed a bit
The next 15 years will be a treat. Total eclipses over Sydney(2028), Southern Brisbane/Gold Coast(2037), West of Brisbane(2030), and Northern Victoria/East Gippsland(2038).
Also people live on land and there's more land in the northern hemisphere so there's that too
I saw the 2024 eclipse from my front yard. The first to pass over my location since 1878 and the last until 2345. It lived up to the hype for sure!
3:11 bro im right after this happened and it was SICK I LOVED ITTTT
That was an interesting topic! Thank you for the great video!
Is this greater proximity to the Sun during southern hemisphere's summer the reason for their summer being on average hotter??
I'm not an expert, but I'm sure it isn't. Mercury is incredibly closer and it reaches colder temperatures at night than the Earth's, even in winter
It's one reason.
@@lanzsibelius That's because Mercury has no atmosphere to allow the heat to move around.
If the ratio of distance to size was exact then the umbra on the ground would be a point and not an area. However, given the moon is slowly moving away, This should actually happen at some point. Has anyone calculated that time frame.
People have built religions around this crap.
Is the best latitude to see an annual at eclipse 80 S
2:52 Lol.
If i still lived in Christchurch I would never see a total solar eclipse :( I feel bad for my friends who will probably never see one :(
Moon orbit is also elliptical, so even earth is closest to the sun, the moon can still cover the sun so it can still cause a total solar eclipse if the moon at its perigee
Does the variation in the distance between Earth and the Moon depending on the moon's orbit cancel out over longer timespans?
Yes, because the orientation of the lunar orbit's major axis (the line connecting its perigee and apogee) rotates once every 8.85 years. This means that if the new Moon happens to be at perigee during the southern hemisphere summer, that will have shifted to the northern hemisphere summer less than 5 years later.
Isn't there some precession of the tendency for summer in the North to be farther from the sun? Is the data you're using to show north gets more solar eclipses than south just an artefact of the short period humans have been on the planet?
That is due to the tilt of the earth which causes summer and winter, in the summer the north is tilted towards the sun, while the reverse happens for the south
@@Itakebigcraps You're right about that, but he's describing how presently in our northern summer the earth is actually a little farther away from the sun, with the pathway around the sun being an ellipse, not a true circle. It is counterintuitive but that longer distance has a minimal effect on climate compared to the huge effect of tilt on seasonal change. I'm asking if there is a slow creep of that effect over time.
@@spelunkerd IIRC you're right, over tens of thousands of years the Earth's axis changes the direction it's "pointing"
How big is "any given point"? Doesn't the area of that spot really matter?
why does this eclipse go SE to NE, and others are different especially at the poles ?
I’ve seen the annular 5mos ago, i woke up, & it looked like it was burnt orange out. Many stopped & looked up at it Then the totality eclipse recently. Of course it went dark, the wildlife was screaming in the pond, & birds went away, street lights came on, etc it was an impressive show. It was a big deal here, no one was driving out, & I was in middle of moving, thank god someone gave me glasses lol & happen to be in the path. Then I saw it going up, north from us, Canada. I didn’t see the moon until the other night 🥰
I traveled to see the total eclipse on April 8th, and I am super duper glad I did. Well worth it
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1:26 wait but does that mean the southern hemisphere gets more lunar eclipses???
HAPPY because New Zealand is on your map. #Mapswithoutnewzealand
SAD because we don't get as many eclipses.
HAPPY because your map isn't the despicable Mercator projection.
SAD because we didn't get to see this eclipse.
HAPPY because you mentioned my home town, Christchurch!
SAD because I will be very old in 2431.
HAPPY because we are getting a good one in Queenstown in the middle of 2028 - which I will travel for.
Wow - what a roller coaster.
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This video makes it sound like in summer the southern hemisphere could only have annular eclipses due to the elliptic orbit of Earth. Of course, the main ingredient in distinguishing total and annular is how far the moon is on HIS elliptic path. This makes a much bigger difference.
That is true, but it just makes a total eclipse more likely when the Moon is close to its perigee, which doesn't favour any of the Earth's hemispheres over the other.
Isn't the size of the Moon also changing because its orbit around Earth is also not perfectly circular?
Yes, and quite a bit more so than the earth's orbit around the sun. This is IMO a fatal omission in the video's explanation.
The solar eclipse in April of 2024 was one of the most amazing things I've had the privilege to experience in my lifetime.
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Astronomical advantages for observers in each hemisphere:
Northern: solar eclipses and meteor showers
Southern: everything else
the real question though is how long does it take for a total eclipse of the heart
and the answer is: every now and then
When's the next total eclipse of the heart.
Wow, i wasnt wrong in my perpection that Brazil 🇧🇷 RARELY has total eclipses.😢. The last one happened years before i was BORN and the next one Will only happen in 2045. Past years we had a annular eclipse ONLY in the border of the northeast so i couldnt see It, ALL i Saw was the Sun getting a bit weaker. ITS curious How It had the INVERSE design of yesterdays eclipse in United States and México. Came DOWN by the west coast.
🇧🇷 Oh well, i guess were not that important 😢
My house on the equator:I don't understand.
It should also be noted that eclipses ONLY happen on or around the Autumnal or Vernal equinoxes. The sun and the moon are not on the same plane in the sky; so the moon may dip below the sun’s relative position or it may dip above the sun’s position. However on either of the equinoxes the sun and moon’s paths meet, which often makes a solar eclipse happen somewhere in the world.
The moon orbit is rotating toghter with the points sun passes moon orbit on the sky aka nodes with 18 year cycle, so eclipse can happen at any month of year not just equinox
So here in the south we get more lunar eclipses than you in the north, right?
@feyh No. Lunar eclipses aren't affected by earth's orbital eccentricity
Also, the entire night side of the earth can see the lunar eclipses. Not just a narrow path like a total solar eclipse.
@@MrT------5743 ohhh right, thanks! Of course, we all see Earth's big shadow on the moon, but not all of us is on the moon's small shadow on Earth.
Can a plane fly fast enough to stay under an eclipse the whole time?
I think that's been done successfully before
It’s been done for 75 minutes! The eclipses are way to fast!!
Metric system, please!
Hahhahah this is your sign to switch
@@lightlingzooma-69Why switch to a system used by only 5% of the population that doesn't even make sense.
Why? This eclipse is happening in American units. 😛
Did you know that every time someone complains in RUclips comments about units not being in metric, we make a new random unit of measurement? For you, we created the slorp, equivalent to 58.33186181318 decibels.
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Really, really interesting thanks!
It is variations in the moon’s distance from the Earth that make the difference between annular and total. The variations in the size of the sun are not enough to determine that.
That's true, but regarding total solar eclipses the Moon's elliptical orbit doesn't favour any of the Earth's hemispheres on a century time scale since the major axis of the Moon's orbit makes a full revolution over only 8.85 years. If, for instance, the Moon's perigee at some point coincides with its new phase during the southern hemisphere summer, that will have shifted to the northern hemisphere summer in less than 5 years.
Whats a total eclipse called when both the Moons and Earths orbit are at its farthest point, as well as its closest point?
Actully video is wrong, moon orbit is also not perfect distance to earth and has grater effect on eclipse magnitude then sun apperent size, its 18% diffrence. You can specially see that in hybrid eclipses when sun and moon sizes align perfecly and due to earth curveture total eclipse can turn to annular eclipse closer to sunrise or sunset
Fun fact. In Latin annulus means ring, hence the name Annular eclipse which looks like a ring.
That is why it's called an anus.
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Aren't sun and moon eclipses concentrated to weeks near equinox? I always had the feeling that at least moon eclipses are.
Moon orbit it self is orbiting earth with 18 year cycle, that mean so called nodes point where sun and earth shadow passes moon orbit on sky, are orbiting too and eclipse season in each year moves with it. Earth shadow is in opposite side of sun, when sun passes the node shadow passes opposite node, so lunar eclipse happens eather after or before or even in between (then they usally shalow) solar eclipse depending how things align, so they tied toghther
That would be true if the Moon's orbital plane was close to the Earth's equatorial plane, which is the case with many other moons relative to their parent planets. However, the Moon's orbital plane is tilted 5° relative to the Earth's orbital plane (known as the ecliptic), not its equator, meaning that eclipses can happen throughout the year.
Even the eclipses forget about new Zealand
There will be total eclipses over parts of NZ in 2028, 2037 and 2038.
Where I live we're only getting like 92% totality, but I can't even complain because I got to travel in 2017 to see full totally in South Carolina. Oh, big mad that I can't have a once in a lifetime experience more than once????
SecondEarth: Northern hemisphere gets more daytime while being farther from the sun
Well, before getting into the video, I will suggest a solution to the riddle at the beginning. There are just as many solar eclipses viewable from the southern hemisphere as the northern hemisphere, but you would have to be out in the middle of the ocean to see a lot of them. Now I’ve got that answer locked in, I’ll view the rest of the video.
checkmate
Wait so when the earth is closer to the sun it's actually winter? But only in the northern hemisphere?
Not a flat earther 🐝🍵👐 just curious
@@JiroYennyes. The seasons are more affected by the tilt of the earths axis than its distance from the sun
yes. the earth is closest to the sun in the first week of january, however, that drifts over the years, meaning that sometime, the earth will be closest to the sun in the northern summer
Also, the annular eclipse and total solar eclipse also depends on the moons’s orbit
i bet the mention of new zealand getting a total eclipse once every 420 years and the country seeing its first eclipse on 69 ce is a reference to a meme
I would be interested to know why the US seems to get so many eclipses. I’m at 55N in the UK and haven’t seen an eclipse in my lifetime.
The US had two eclipses in the last two years.
Your video says that the further north you are the more likely you are to have an eclipse. So why so many in the US?
More than likely, it's just because the US is many times larger than the UK.
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