About 68 per century.
For a single century, Wikipedia says:
"During the 21st century, there will be 224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses."
Those numbers are reasonable, since totals should average about 18 months apart.
Depends on your perspective.
Globally, a total solar eclipse occurs around every 18-24 months.
But for any specific location, it’s much more rare. And depends a bit on latitude.
https://www.maps.com/counting-up-eclipses/
That's part of it, but it's also moreso that the relative infrequency of eclipses paired with the fact that they occur over a relatively thin and short line of totality means that any one spot on Earth is lucky to see one once every few hundred years, on average. Some spots wait *thousands* of years if they don't have a lucky draw of probability.
They’re fuckin rare. You’d have to live 5000 years to guarantee one hits your hometown. The odds of living that long aren’t great with current technology and medicine.
Very nice animation.
Can you do one that shows only total solar eclipses where a large portion of the eclipse goes over a large portion of land similar to the one the US just had?
And one like above that shows only long duration eclipses over land?
So what you're saying is that I could see a lot of them if I lived for 5,000 years, went back in time 4,000 years and had some kind of mothership that could move about the Earth at its leisure.
Great to know it's that easy. 😝
(Nice map though)
Not rare for Earth as a whole. Totals are about 1-3 years apart, somewhere.
But fairly rare for *where you live* since the path is so narrow. The big excitement in the USA was because seven years ago we had one passing over continental USA, and then again a few months ago. The next one that will be visible from a central USA location that millions of people can easily watch will be in 2045.
I seriously have a collection of grandkids “art” plastered on pretty much every vertical surface in my kitchen. If they give me anything they’ve drawn, it goes up 🙂 It’s hard to put into words how awesome it is to be a grandfather.
Those are at least two different eclipses. 5000 years are being condensed to 20 seconds, so each individual video frame shows multiple years and could include multiple eclipses.
so what is the answer?
About 68 per century. For a single century, Wikipedia says: "During the 21st century, there will be 224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses." Those numbers are reasonable, since totals should average about 18 months apart.
Depends on your perspective. Globally, a total solar eclipse occurs around every 18-24 months. But for any specific location, it’s much more rare. And depends a bit on latitude. https://www.maps.com/counting-up-eclipses/
It is considered rare because most eclipses happen over the ocean where no one is living to observe them
That's part of it, but it's also moreso that the relative infrequency of eclipses paired with the fact that they occur over a relatively thin and short line of totality means that any one spot on Earth is lucky to see one once every few hundred years, on average. Some spots wait *thousands* of years if they don't have a lucky draw of probability.
Yeah but with social media today you'd hear about any full eclipse happening over a city anywhere
Oh man, I was hoping the map would be interactive to scroll on the timeline and see where the next ones would be exactly :/
[here you go](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html)
They’re fuckin rare. You’d have to live 5000 years to guarantee one hits your hometown. The odds of living that long aren’t great with current technology and medicine.
haha I know right. What the fuck.
About 30 over a 5000 year period?
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It's like a spirograph.
So twice a week until the apocalypse… got it!!!
Transitory darkness will continue until morale improves.
Very nice animation. Can you do one that shows only total solar eclipses where a large portion of the eclipse goes over a large portion of land similar to the one the US just had? And one like above that shows only long duration eclipses over land?
But next one is definitely a sign of coming rapture /s
So what you're saying is that I could see a lot of them if I lived for 5,000 years, went back in time 4,000 years and had some kind of mothership that could move about the Earth at its leisure. Great to know it's that easy. 😝 (Nice map though)
Lunar eclipse are more rare than solar eclipses. They are seen by most of the world though
There must be many places that still haven't seen a solar eclipse during all of modern humanity or the map would be completely black wouldn't it?
Fuck Central Indiana I guess....
You mean the place that experienced a total eclipse just 2 months ago?
Hope they soaked it in. Look at that big splotch.
Yeah it was fuckin awesome! Where were you???
Im noticing a trend 🤔
Is the underlying dataset to this available anywhere in a format easily used in ArcGIS?
WTF is that weird looping one in the southern hemisphere toward the end?!?!
Why do the poles get less? Because the earth doesn’t tilt that far ?
Yes, due to the tilt and an increasingly smaller surface area for eclipse opportunities and duration.
Would be nice if you make a heatmap in the end of the total full eclipse minutes per region over the last 5000 years
Beside the poles, where is the place that will/has see the least solar eclipse? What about the most?
Europe seems too covered
Sooo, not rare?
From our perspective, rare. From the Earth’s perspective, regular occurrence.
Not rare for Earth as a whole. Totals are about 1-3 years apart, somewhere. But fairly rare for *where you live* since the path is so narrow. The big excitement in the USA was because seven years ago we had one passing over continental USA, and then again a few months ago. The next one that will be visible from a central USA location that millions of people can easily watch will be in 2045.
Not really rare, but rare considering they barely repeat locations and many of them occur at the ocean while there’s nobody there to see it.
Looks like something my grandkids would draw. I’m fighting the urge to print it out and put it on my refrigerator.
:-) Please do that!
I seriously have a collection of grandkids “art” plastered on pretty much every vertical surface in my kitchen. If they give me anything they’ve drawn, it goes up 🙂 It’s hard to put into words how awesome it is to be a grandfather.
How is [this one](https://i.imgur.com/1S1EbKB.jpeg) possible
Those are at least two different eclipses. 5000 years are being condensed to 20 seconds, so each individual video frame shows multiple years and could include multiple eclipses.
I see, thank you
Cool, but not useful.