Eclipse2017.org - Get to the shadow!

There are many kinds of eclipses - total solar, partial solar, annular, and lunar, to name the most common few. Partial eclipses are pretty common, and you very well may have been a part of one of those. Lunar eclipses happen at night, and they can be seen by half the world at the same time! Annular eclipses are much rarer, but you need to have special filters to see them, so many people don't even know they're going on! But a total eclipse -- these are extremely rare, extremely beautiful, and the bare-eye view of totality is absolutely unmistakable to anyone in the thin path! They are the kings of eclipses, with nothing else able to stand in comparison to!

These are the only total solar eclipses that have touched U.S. soil in the last hundred years, and the general locations you would've had to have been in to see totality:

6/8/1918
A nationwide band of totality stretching from the SW corner of Washington, through Denver, Tulsa, Jackson MS, the panhandle of FL, and Orlando.

9/10/1923
Only visible from the far SW beaches in California.

1/24/1925
Northern MN, WI, and MI, and about half of NY (NYC was split in two by the path!), plus pieces of PA, NJ, and CT.

8/31/1932
Maine, NH, VT, and the far eastern coast of MA.

2/4/1943
Alaska

7/9/1945
Our "Victory Eclipse" was visible in ID and MT only, in the early morning.

6/30/1954
From northern NE, through the western tip of Michigan's UP. Minneapolis was in the path. Early morning.

10/2/1959
Massachusetts only, just at sunrise.

7/20/1963
Alaska got a good show, and Maine was the only other state to see totality.

3/7/1970
From central FL, the path hugged the eastern coast of the US up through Virgina's Eastern Shore. This is the eclipse that Carly Simon was referring to in her 1972 song "You're so vain". ("You flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia - to see the total eclipse of the sun.")

7/10/1972
Northern Alaska only

2/26/1979
WA, OR, ID, MT, and ND were the only states to see totality, in the mid-morning.

7/11/1991
Hawaii only

That's it for total eclipses seen from the U.S.! Anything else you may have seen was not a total eclipse!

The United States' 26-year dearth of Total Solar Eclipses is about to end! This rarity and beauty is why we are making all this fuss about the 2017 event, and it is why we want everyone to stop whatever they're doing on that day, get to the path, and be absolutely awe-struck and amazed for up to two-and-a-half minutes of totality.

"Only two and a half minutes? No way! I'm not even gonna waste my time for that!"
No, no - believe me - Get yourself there; get to the shadow, and see something you simply won't believe. You won't be wasting your time - not by a long shot.
Trust me.

6/8/1918	A nationwide band of totality stretching from the SW corner of Washington, through Denver, Tulsa, Jackson MS, the panhandle of FL, and Orlando.
9/10/1923	Only visible from the far SW beaches in California.
1/24/1925	Northern MN, WI, and MI, and about half of NY (NYC was split in two by the path!), plus pieces of PA, NJ, and CT.
8/31/1932	Maine, NH, VT, and the far eastern coast of MA.
2/4/1943	Alaska
7/9/1945	Our "Victory Eclipse" was visible in ID and MT only, in the early morning.
6/30/1954	From northern NE, through the western tip of Michigan's UP. Minneapolis was in the path. Early morning.
10/2/1959	Massachusetts only, just at sunrise.
7/20/1963	Alaska got a good show, and Maine was the only other state to see totality.
3/7/1970	From central FL, the path hugged the eastern coast of the US up through Virgina's Eastern Shore. This is the eclipse that Carly Simon was referring to in her 1972 song "You're so vain". ("You flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia - to see the total eclipse of the sun.")
7/10/1972	Northern Alaska only
2/26/1979	WA, OR, ID, MT, and ND were the only states to see totality, in the mid-morning.
7/11/1991	Hawaii only