Click here for an eclipse map for the April 8, 2024 event. You can click on your location (or enter the latitude and longitude in a form) to find out if and when you can see the eclipse there. This is a total eclipse along the central path and a partial eclipse elsewhere. Only part of this eclipse can be seen with the naked eye. Use solar filters made specifically for safe viewing of the sun during the partial phase, which is all you get from most of the visibility area. Don't trust dark sunglasses or other filters not made specifically for direct solar viewing. The current and recent monthly narratives are at www.skycaramba.com/monthly. The archived weekly blog from several years ago is at www.skycaramba.com/blog. The astronomical events search is at www.skycaramba.com/events.shtml Keep up with the SkyCaramba podcast at this link. Read the monthly happenings section for this month's astronomy events. You can also check out the new monthly events calendar.

Astronomical event lists
Conjunctions are when two objects line up on a north-south line	Moon Phases new, first quarter, full, last quarter	Oppositions when an object is up all night because it's opposite the sun
Earth's Seasons winter, spring, summer, fall	Eclipses when the moon passes in front of the sun or the moon goes through Earth's shadow	Mars's Seasons are not much like Earth's
Aphelions are when planets are at their farthest from the sun	Lunar Nodes are when the moon crosses the ecliptic--the sun's travel line	Perihelions are when planets are at their closest to the sun
Greatest Elongations when Mercury and Venus appear as far from the sun as they will get	Planets' Circumstances including evening or morning visibility, direct or retrograde motion, and the constellations they're in	Lunistices and more northern and southern lunistice, and when the moon crosses the equator
Occultations happen when the moon passes in front of another object	Moon's perigee and apogee are when the moon is closest to and farthest from the earth	Transits of Mercury and Venus in front of the sun

The searchable events database now contains events from 2010 to 2029! Look things up by object (Sun, Venus, Jupiter, etc.) or by event type (solar eclipses, moon phases, planets at opposition, etc.) with a date range you specify. Please understand that meteor showers, aurorae, and other events that are difficult or impossible to predict are not listed in the database.

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