Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others. He edits WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com.
A partial solar eclipse will be visible across most of the Americas on Saturday, Oct. 14, when the moon will block up to 90% of the sun, depending on the viewer's location. For some, the view will include a rare "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse.
Only Alaska and the southern tip of South America will miss out on seeing some kind of partial solar eclipse, though exactly how much of the sun is obscured by the moon depends on a location's proximity to a 125-mile-wide path. "Over 6 and a half million people live in this path of annularity, and there's another 68 million people who live within 200 miles of the path," Alex Lockwood, strategic content and integration lead for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said at a NASA news conference on Sept. 26."But everyone in the entire contiguous United States can witness a partial solar eclipse."This month's event will be the first annular solar eclipse to cross the U.S.
"We're encouraging folks to go out there and observe safely, making sure that you have ISO-certified glasses," said Kelly Korreck, eclipse program manager at NASA headquarters.
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