Total Solar Eclipse - August 21, 2017

• The total solar eclipse which will take place on August 21, 2017 will be be visible across the contiguous United States - from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast.
• Total eclipse will be experienced in parts of only 14 states.
• Other states, including here in Louisiana, will see a partial eclipse of differing degrees according to their distance from the sites of total eclipse.
• The last total eclipse which was seen in the U.S. from coast to coast took place on June 8, 1918.

Credit: Visualization by Ernie Wright, December 13, 2016, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

States in the path of totality (shaded area of map): Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.