# I just learned about the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, which will be passing right over my house **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-learned-about-the-annular-solar-eclipse-of-october-14-2023-which-will-be-passing-right-over-my-house/962945 "2022-04-17T06:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-learned-about-the-annular-solar-eclipse-of-october-14-2023-which-will-be-passing-right-over-my-house/962945/4 "2022-04-17T07:58:33Z")
There’s a whole thread about the 2024 total eclipse: > [@USA TSE, total solar eclipse: three years away for USA (April 2024)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-three-years-away-for-usa-april-2024/938873/69): > > My 2017 experience was very similar, traffic-wise. Horrendous traffic when leaving! Everybody leaving at once. The eclipse expert Fred Espenak at Sky & Telescope has a good map showing % coverage if you’re off the totality path. I snapped it to imgur. [[Album] imgur.com [imgur.com] ](https://imgur.com/a/BaCEJL3) That one’s exciting for me because it’s local. I was wondering why I had not heard about the one next year, but had missed the fact that it’s an annular eclipse. Pretty cool, I guess, but not like a total eclipse. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-learned-about-the-annular-solar-eclipse-of-october-14-2023-which-will-be-passing-right-over-my-house/962945)._