# The Great American Eclipse Part 2: April 8 2024
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829 "2024-02-20T13:14:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/1 "2024-02-20T13:14:13Z")
With not much more than six weeks to go I guess I should start to live up to my name: you probably know by now that the second Great American Eclipse is coming, on 8 April, when the best visible Total Solar Eclipse for many years will cross the North American continent from west to east, crossing from Mexico into the USA near San Antonio, Texas, passing over Dallas, Indianapolis, Toledo, Cleveland, and passing into Canada around the area of Burlington, VT.
This looks like being a good one with a length of totality of between 3.5 and 4 minutes in the USA.
So are you planning to see it? To make a special journey to see it? Southern Michigan is reported to be the most favourable place to see it in the USA. And the track passes right over Niagara Falls which should provide some sensational eclipse photographs.
As an addicted eclipse chaser I’ll be seeing it from Torreon, Mexico this time, this will be no. 8 for me and no. 10 for my partner!
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/2 "2024-02-20T15:25:09Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [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-2024/938873/309)
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/3 "2024-02-20T15:04:49Z")
Seems like a duplication. I don’t see any new angle here.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/4 "2024-02-20T15:12:26Z")
Reported as a dupe
Brian
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/5 "2024-02-20T15:24:36Z")
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-american-eclipse-part-2-april-8-2024/997829/6 "2024-02-20T15:26:44Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was “three years away for USA” when started)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873)