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

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> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> Not that it matters to me of course. If I’m around the observing site it’ll be cloudy or rainy, obviously.

I thought of you when I read the front page of Wikipedia. There’s an eclipse item in the « Did you know? » section today:

> - … that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the **[solar eclipse of September 10, 1923](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_September_10,_1923)**, from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?

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