“THE ECLIPSE OF OUR CENTURY”
THE GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2027
LUXOR, EGYPT
August 2, 2027 at 13:05pm
Duration of Totality: 6 minutes 23 seconds
Duration of Solar Event: 11:40am - 14:46pm, 2 hours 46 minutes 12 seconds
Location of Greatest Eclipse Totality: Luxor, Egypt
25°29'36.0"N 33°13'12.0"E
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The track of totality on 2 August, 2027, will skim southern Spain and Gibraltar, crossing several countires in North Africa including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia, but its totality will occur in Egypt directly above Luxor lasting an unusually long duration of over 6 minutes.
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Definitions:
ECLIPSE: to uncover, from the ancient Greek word apokalupsis ἀποκάλυψις ; apo- (away) and kalyptō (to cover) ; translates directly to "uncovering" or "revelation"
Annular Solar Eclipse: An Eclipse in which the Moon is at a distance from the Earth making it too small to cover the Sun completely and causing a ring of light around its circumference of the Moon in which the Sun remains uncovered.
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: An Eclipse in which the whole of the Eclipsed Sun is hidden by a Moon that is at its closest distance to the Earth.
TOTALITY: The period of time in which the Eclipse is Total, as in a complete darkness in the shadow, or umbra.
TRACK OF TOTALITY: Small trail of the shadow (umbra) across the Earth’s surface in which the Total Solar Eclipse can be seen, generally sweeping from west to east.
SYZYGY: When three solar system bodies lie in a straight line.
“There is a total eclipse of the sun somewhere on Earth every eighteen months or so. But… a view of the completely obscured solar disk is restricted to a track swept out by the path of the moon’s shadow, varying from only a few kilometers wide to a hundred or so… Total eclipses are therefore extremely rare events for any particular place on the planet’s surface—most people never experience one, and those who do have typically travelled deliberately to the ‘tack of totality’.
“…Witnessing a total solar eclipse… the human being looking up into a dramatically different sky and feeling suddenly how the universe aligns around her, according to laws that have always been there but only reveal themselves in the darkness of the eclipsed sun and the bright light of the corona around it. A diamond ring, the movement of the shadow over the sun generates brief emergences of sparkles around it, the animals grow silent, and the crickets start to sing. Afterwards, everything appears in a new and fresh light.”
—from the book Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts edited by H.C. Lange & T. McLeish
Public Domain image provided by Michael S. Adler from August 21, 2017 of the "Great American Eclipse"