Torontonians eager to catch a glimpse of the upcoming total solar eclipse would be wise to hit the road and head out of town Monday.
While the moon will cover up 99.9 per cent of the sun in parts of Toronto on April 8, the city is not in the path of totality like other municipalities outside the GTA.“This is a very important difference for solar eclipses,” said Elaina Hyde, the director of the Allan I Carswell Observatory at York University and a professor with the school’s Natural Sciences department.
“It's a narrow, narrow line travelling across North America and only in that specific region are you going to get some amount of totality,” Hyde said. “If you're viewing it safely… you'll see the disc of the sun gradually become a crescent and that crescent will get thinner and thinner and thinner and then it will get bigger and bigger and bigger and become a circle again,” she said.
“Montreal is getting sort of cut almost in half by the eclipse path,” she said. “So part of Montreal will get the eclipse and part of them won't.” The peak of the total solar eclipse will last longer in some Ontario cities than others.
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