On Saturday, October 14, 2023, an annular eclipse will be visible across the United States. Though Pine Bluff is not along the direct path of totality, it will experience a partial solar eclipse as the moon covers 67% of the Sun.
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On Saturday October 14, 2023, an annular eclipse will be visible along a narrow path across the United States and South America. That morning the moon will cover the Sun center so that the Sun’s outer edges appear as a single ring of light, known as the ring of fire. To witness this ring of fire you must be within the 125-mile path of annularity. The eclipse will be visible for longer if you are closer to the center of the path of annularity. Outside of this path, only a partial eclipse will be visible. Though the annular eclipse will last approximately five minutes, there will be partial eclipses before and after it. Therefore the entire event will take up to three hours.
In the U.S., the annular eclipse will begin in Eugene, Oregon, at 9:13 a.m. PDT and end in San Antonio, Texas, at 11:56 a.m. CDT. Though Pine Bluff is not along the direct path of totality, it will experience a partial solar eclipse. During this partial eclipse the moon will cover 67% of the Sun. This partial eclipse will last from 10:29 a.m. to 1:34 p.m. CDT. This event will be a warm up for Arkansas’s Great North American Eclipse 2024 on April 8. This total solar eclipse will impact the state of Arkansas as it travels across the state from the Southwest corner to the Northeast corner. So make plans now to visit Pine Bluff, Arkansas! Hotels and campsites will book up fast as this event will still bring thousands of visitors to the Pine Bluff community to experience this phenomenon.
You can go to our website Eclipse 2024 page to get all the information you need at Pine Bluff, AR | 2024 Solar Eclipse (explorepinebluff.com)
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Written by: Ninfa O. Barnard