How long does total eclipse last in your system?

Answer 1

A total solar eclipse takes several hours, but is considered a partial eclipse until the time of totality - the time when the moon blocks out the sun completely. Totality can last up to 7 minutes 40 seconds. To clarify, at any given spot on earth a total solar eclipse lasts just a few minutes. However, if you could be witnessing such an eclipse from high in space, you would see that there is a "path of totality" that sweeps across the sunlit face of earth. The length of this path varies from eclipse to eclipse. It is this path sweeping along the earth that can last for several hours, not the experience of the eclipse for a given individual at a fixed spot.

Answer 2

The period of totality for a solar eclipse generally lasts between 3 to 10 minutes, depending on where you are in the path of the eclipse. If you are near the edge of the path of totality, it might last only a few seconds.

Total Eclipses may take anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour, depending on how directly the Moon passed into the Earth's shadow.

Answer 3

I believe usually 3-4 hours. probably 3.5

The moon is expected to take 3 hours and 28 minutes to pass completely through the umbra.

The total phase of the eclipse will last 72 minutes beginning at 7:41 UT (on Dec. 21), corresponding to 2:41 a.m. EST or 11:41 p.m. PST (on Dec. 20).

At the moment of mid-totality (8:17 UT/3:17 a.m. EST/12:17 a.m. PST), the moon will stand directly overhead from a point in the North Pacific Ocean about 800 miles (1,300 km) west of La Paz, Mexico.

The moon will pass entirely out of the Earth's umbra at 10:01 UT/5:01 a.m. EST/2:01 a.m. PST and the last evidence of the penumbra should vanish about 15 or 20 minutes later.

Answer 4

A total eclipse of the moon can last over 100 minutes but that is very rare. A total eclipse of the sun lasts shorter, about 8 minutes. This has to do with how far the objects are to the Earth.

Answer 5

The maximum possible time of a total solar eclipse is about 7.5 minutes.

The total phase of a lunar eclipse is about 1.5 hours.

The duration of any eclipse depends on the exact geometry between the Earth, Moon and Sun, and particularly the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The Moon is in an elliptical orbit with a perigee (closest to the Earth) distance of 225,600 miles and an apogee (greatest) distance of 252,000 miles. When the Moon is close, we have longer eclipses; when the Moon is at a middle distance we have shorter eclipses, and at apogee we get annular solar eclipses and very short lunar eclipses.

Answer 6

The sun, moon and earth are all moving relative to each other.

Answer 7

7 minutes if not aproximitley 11 if more god dam idont know

Answer 8

A solar eclipse can last up to 8 minutes. A lunar eclipse can last up to 106 minutes, but this is rare. ChaCha again!

Answer 9

Because the moon is orbiting all the time so it moves out of place.

Answer 10

How long can a total eclipse of the sun last