Once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse set to hit Eastern Townships in April 2024

Once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse set to hit Eastern Townships in April 2024

By Bird Bouchard

 

 

Those wishing to view a once in a lifetime total solar eclipse, scheduled one year from now, should start planning, warns a local astronomer.

On April 8, 2024, for a brief few minutes during that afternoon, day will turn into night as the moon completely blocks the sun, plunging the entire Eastern Townships into darkness. The 2024 total solar eclipse will be the first in Québec since 1972, when a similar eclipse passed through the Gaspé Peninsula.

Dr. John Ruan from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Bishop’s University explained

the shadow from the eclipse quickly moves across the earth’s surface along a narrow line, ‘the ‘path of totality’.

“The Eastern Townships will be the prime location in Canada to view the total solar eclipse. The

path of totality runs exactly through our region, with Sherbrooke near its epicentre,” said Ruan.

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