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Eclipse across America: Aug 21, 2017

For the first time in almost a century, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the U.S., plunging a strip 113km wide into darkness. Outside the path of totality, skywatchers elsewhere in North America and northern South America will experience a partial eclipse

International Space Station, 11 spacecraft, three NASA planes and 50 high-altitude balloons will capture event

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All times GMT

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Never look directly at eclipse with naked eye, binoculars, cameras or telescopes without specialized solar filters


Over 12m people live in path of totality, 200m within one day’s drive

Start: Oregon, 17:15GMT
GREATEST DURATION 2 min, 40.2 secs at 18:25GMT, south of Carbondale, Illinois
End: S. Carolina 18:47GMT

TOTALITY PATH Width 113km (70 miles)

CANADA
UNITED STATES
OR
ID
WY
NE
KS 
MO
IL
TN
KY
GA
SC
NC
Washington DC
ATLANTIC OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
MEXICO
Gulf of Mexico

300km 185 miles

Source: NASA 
Picture: Getty Images
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