Total Solar Eclipse Live Stream: Streaks of Total Solar Eclipses Across 15 US States Monday, April 8

Are you ready? A total solar eclipse will arrive in North America on Monday, April 8. It will enter along the Pacific coast of Mexico, crossing the United States from Texas to Maine before exiting through eastern Canada into the Atlantic.

The maximum spectacle will last up to 4 minutes and 28 seconds on the path of total darkness, a 115-mile-wide path that crosses the continent. That’s the ideal place to experience the total eclipse – most of the rest of the continent outside the path of totality will get a partial eclipse.

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WHAT IS A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?

During a total solar eclipse, the Moon aligns perfectly between the Earth and the Sun, blocking out sunlight. On April 8, the moon’s shadow will trace a diagonal line from southwest to northeast across North America, briefly plunging communities along its path into darkness.

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North America won’t experience totality again until 2033, but only in Alaska. The next one won’t be until 2044, when totality will be limited to western Canada, Montana and North Dakota. There will not be another eclipse in the United States, which will stretch from coast to coast, until 2045.

WHICH STATES WILL HAVE A COMPLETE ECLIPSE?

The path of total darkness, the path of totality, passes through 15 states.

In the US, the path of totality begins in Texas and will travel through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. According to NASA, small areas of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the total solar eclipse.

Best times, places to see the total solar eclipse

Below is a list of some American cities where the April 8 total solar eclipse will be most visible (pending weather forecasts), the duration of the eclipse in those locations, and what time totality will begin, according to GreatAmericanEclipse.com.

Texas

• Eagle Pass, Texas, 1:27 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 23 seconds

• Uvalde, Texas, 1:29 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 16 seconds

• Kerrville, Texas, 1:32 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 23 seconds

• Austin, Texas, 1:36 pm CDT: 1 minute, 53 seconds

• Killeen, Texas, 1:36 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 17 seconds

• Fort Worth, Texas, 1:40 pm CDT: 2 minutes, 34 seconds

• Dallas, Texas, 1:40 pm CDT: 3 minutes, 47 seconds

Arkansas

• Little Rock, Arkansas, 1:51 pm CDT: 2 minutes, 33 seconds

• Jonesboro, Arkansas, 1:55 pm CDT: 2 minutes, 24 seconds

• Poplar Bluff, Arkansas, 1:56 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 8 seconds

Missouri

• Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 1:58 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 6 seconds

Illinois

• Carbondale, Illinois, 1:59 pm CDT: 4 minutes, 8 seconds

• Mount Vernon, Illinois, 2:00 pm CDT: 3 minutes, 40 seconds

Indiana

• Evansville, Indiana, 2:02 pm CDT: 3 minutes, 2 seconds

• Terre Haute, Indiana, 3:04 pm EDT: 2 minutes, 57 seconds

• Indianapolis, Indiana, 3:06 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 46 seconds

Ohio

• Dayton, Ohio, 3:09 pm EDT: 2 minutes, 46 seconds

• Wapakoneta, Ohio, 3:09 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 55 seconds

• Toledo, Ohio, 3:12 pm EDT: 1 minute, 54 seconds

• Cleveland, Ohio, 3:13 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 50 seconds

Pennsylvania

• Eerie, Pennsylvania, 3:16 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 43 seconds

NY

• Buffalo, New York, 3:18 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 45 seconds

• Rochester, New York, 3:20 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 40 seconds

• Syracuse, New York, 3:23 pm EDT: 1 minute, 26 seconds

Vermont

• Burlington, Vermont, 3:26 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 14 seconds

Maine

• Island Falls, Maine, 3:31 pm EDT: 3 minutes, 20 seconds

• Presque Isle, Maine, 3:32 pm EDT: 2 minutes, 47 seconds

Anyone outside the path of totality on eclipse day will still provide a celestial spectacle worth getting eclipse glasses for.

• Atlanta, Georgia: 3:04 p.m., magnitude 0.846

• Boston, Massachusetts: 3:29 p.m., magnitude 0.931

• Chicago, Illinois: 2:07 pm, magnitude 0.942

• Cincinnati, Ohio: 3:09 p.m., magnitude 0.993

• Denver, Colorado: 12:40 p.m., magnitude 0.715

• Helena, Montana: 12:40 p.m., magnitude 0.474

• Honolulu, Hawaii: 7:12 am, magnitude 0.286

• Houston, Texas: 1:40 p.m., magnitude 0.943

• Juneau, Alaska: 10:33 am, magnitude 0.064

• Los Angeles, California: 11:12 am, magnitude 0.58

• Miami, Florida: 3:01 pm, magnitude 0.556

• New Orleans, Louisiana: 1:49 p.m., magnitude 0.844

• New York City, New York: 3:25 p.m., magnitude 0.91

• Seattle, Washington: 11:29 am, magnitude 0.311

• St. Louis, Missouri: 2:00 pm, magnitude 0.988

• Tucson, Arizona: 11:19 am, magnitude 0.749

• Washington, DC: 3:20 pm, magnitude 0.89

You can check out more coverage of the eclipse here.

When will the next total solar eclipse be?

After Monday, the next total solar eclipse won’t occur until 2026. But it will skim the top of the world, plunging into Greenland, Iceland and Spain.

The next one, in 2027, will cross Spain and North Africa and will last an incredible 6 and a half minutes in its entirety. Americans will have to wait until 2033 to see another total solar eclipse, but it will be limited to Alaska.

In 2044, Western Canada, Montana and North Dakota will have front-row seats. And in 2045, the United States will again experience a coast-to-coast total solar eclipse.

“Eclipse Across America” ​​will air live on Monday, April 8 starting at 2 pm ET on ABC, ABC News Live, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Disney+, Hulu and this station.

The Associated Press and ABC News contributed to this report.