Types of Eclipses

Join park rangers and volunteers at Wayne's Woods picnic area on Monday, April 8, 2024 from 2 PM to 4:30 PM to watch the partial solar eclipse. Pick up a free pair of eclipse glasses (while supplies last), earn a special Junior Ranger Eclipse Explorer badge, look through a solar telescope, learn about the science of eclipses, and hear a special ranger talk about the historical solar eclipses experienced by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Public programming for the 2024 Total Eclipse was a team effort! With help from Earth to Sky—an organization that fosters collaboration between NASA and the National Park Service—visitors at Hot Springs National Park and other NPS sites in the eclipse path got to experience awe and learning as they witnessed the April 8, 2024 Total Eclipse.

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a deep-partial solar eclipse shadowed the grounds of Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, NY. This amazing occurrence is the last time the park will see such a complete solar eclipse until the year 2079! As such, the scientific data collected during the day has been preserved for posterity on the following page.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial welcomed all visitors to experience the total solar eclipse! Evansville Association for the Blind at the invitation of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial staff helped people with limited and no vision understand and participate in the excitement and learning opportunities of the solar eclipse through hands-on tactile and participatory learning models and methods.

Kids and the young at heart can learn about solar eclipses with this Eclipse Explorer Junior Ranger program from the National Park Service and The Planetary Society.

People in the past carved petroglyphs and painted pictographs to mark the cycle of the sun, moon, and stars; solstices; and the changing seasons. They tracked time by creating solar calendars that interacted with light and shadow as the sun moved across the sky. When unique astronomical events took place, they documented the moment in stone. Learn more about the purpose for these images.

Two spectacular solar eclipse events will be visible from parks across the continental United States in 2023 and 2024. On October 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross the sky from Oregon to Texas. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible as it crosses from Texas to Maine. Learn more about the different types of eclipses and how to view them safely.

This lesson explores the solar eclipse that passed over North America on May 28, 1900.

National Park Service employees and partners with the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division captured compelling photos and videos of the changing sky and landscape during the 2017 solar eclipse-new moon passage, and people enjoying this celestial event.

1097 July 11: A symbol carved into rock (called a petroglyph) in Chaco Culture National Historical Park may be a representation of a total solar eclipse. The symbol, a filled-in circle with squiggly lines shooting out around its edge, has a small, filled-in circle just to its upper left. Scientists hypothesize that the symbol represents the sun in total eclipse...