# I just learned about the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, which will be passing right over my house

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Got a good million years yet until they’re all annular eclipses at best.

Unless the rate increases, the moon will be 40 kilometers further away a million years from now, so we’ll still have total eclipses long after that.

Not that it matters to me of course. If I’m around the observing site it’ll be cloudy or rainy, obviously.

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