Where on earth do you need to be to view a total solar eclipse?

Answer 1

You need to be somewhere along the path of totality, which is the path the moon's umbra (full shadow) will follow along the earth's surface while the eclipse is happening. If you are not somewhere along this path, you will either see a partial eclipse (if you are within the penumbra but outside of the umbra), or you will see no eclipse at all.

Answer 2

1). You have to be on the side where it is daytime, i.e. the sun is up.

2). You have to be within the relatively narrow strip where some part of the moon's umbra (full shadow) falls.
The strip where the moon TOTALLY blocks the sun from view is never more than a few hundred miles wide.
At any one place, the sun is never TOTALLY blocked for more than about 7 minutes.

Answer 3

Yes. You can see the details of any solar eclipse from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE, by visiting the NASA Eclipse Web Page. For example, the next total solar eclipse will be on November 13, 2012, and will be visible across a long swath of the Pacific Ocean - and only in a few places on land, in northern Australia. I recommend Cairns.

Here's a link to the Eclipse web site, and to the map of the path of totality.

Or, you can see it via webcam from anywhere in the world.

Answer 4

You need to be within the path of totality, which is a specific geographic area where the total eclipse can be seen. This path is typically relatively narrow and moves across the Earth as the eclipse progresses.

Answer 5

you can be anywhere to see that happening. but you must be in specific places at specific times to see the whole thing.

Answer 6

You need to be in the centre of the 'corridor' created by the moon's shadow as it passes in front of the sun.

Answer 7

in a butt