Hello. I am researching historical astronomy and have always appreciated and used your website.

I was hoping that in the kmz file of Google Earth you provide, it would be possible to shade not only the main shadow of the eclipse, but also the penumbra area. As you know, we can superimpose the main shadow paths of several eclipses to see the areas where they can be seen simultaneously. I would like to extend this functionality to areas within a magnitude I set, so for example, if I set 0.4, the area from 0.4 to 1 would be lightly shaded and I would like to see these shadows overlap at the same time.

Thank you!

Best regards, CK.

Hi Xavier, thanks for your excellent work. It helps me so much in my work that I'm thankfull my whole life.
best regards
Michael

Mr. Xavier, I'm sorry for the delay in contacting you.
Thank you very much for coming to our room in Mazatlan the other day and having a pleasant talk with us. I was lucky to meet you in person.
I'll send you a photo later.

Thanks to this resource I had a great eclipse, so much so that I bothered to come here and write this

Xavier

Thank you for all your extraordinary work and for your generosity putting it all public for free. You've been our gide in the annular eclipse in Campeche last year and in Coahuila for the magnificent total one.
I wish you many marvelous eclipses.
Again, thank you so much,
Paz

OBSERVED TSE FROM FORMOSA, AR. GREAT WEATHER AND NO CROWDS.

YOUR MAPS WERE EXCELLENT AND INVALUABLE IN MY PLANNING FOR THIS EVENT. i HAVE FORWARDED A DONATION TO YOU IN GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOUR WORK.

THANKS AGAIN . . .

GEORGE FELIX MADDEN

Keep up the great work. Used this for the 2024 eclipse from Arkansas. Donated.

Au nom de l'Astrolab du Parc national du Mont-Mégantic, merci pour toutes les informations!

Xavier, since 2017 I don't plan for a total solar eclipse in North America without your map. I'd just as soon leave the partial eclipse glasses at home! You are the way the Internet used to be: You do the work for love and expect people to send money. I did send some this year, and I hope I did for 2017. With all the legacy media about this year's total on August 8, I suggest you jump ahead to the next one in the US in 2044 or 2045. Interest is high. You are the best. Merci...Bill

Hey thanks a lot for the website, helped a lot for choosing a location to watch the eclipse on the 8th. I watched it from atop Sugar Loaf Mountain Arkansas which was exactly 6 miles from the exact center. The weather was phenomenal, only faint whisps super high up. We saw a sunspot, a flare, and complete blackout. Also got to see 360 degree twilight from atop the mount.

Probably one of the most memorable moments of my life, thanks for being a part of that!

Thank you for such a tremendous resource! It's a go-to tool!

Xavier,
Thank you for putting this site together. I used it to plan a trip to Vermont to see the April 8, 2024 eclipse. Now I'm using it to figure out what other eclipses I should plan to see. Thank you for such a powerful tool!

Doug MacIvor

Thank you for your website! It is the easiest and most correct one I have found. We used it for the 2017 and 2024 eclipses.

Wanted to day thanks again for the valued info I used to see the most recent total eclipse here in the United States.
Most detailed and best tool out there.
Ive used it for 2017 and 2024 total eclipses. The time of totality where I was at in Pittsburg,NH seemed to be right on.
I'm happy to make a donation and hope I'll have another opportunity to view another total eclipse sometime again.

Thank you so much for the excellent web site. I have depended upon your excellent interactive maps to see two eclipses now (U.S. 2017 and 2024). Your map really helped us plan.
Thank you!

thanks so much for this interactive map! I based many decisions with guidance from this gem.

This app helped us plan our trip. Thanks

Super site!! My daughter and I flew (RV7) to see and experience the totality yesterday. Your site, settings helped greatly.

I got a few photos with my DSLR all manual settings. Maybe I will see one again in my lifetime. If so, now with this site as a primary I can be more ready.

I saw my first total eclipse yesterday! Thank you for the map overlays, they made planning the travel much easier.
The total eclipse was beautiful. I hadn't expected that. I expected it to be neat and perhaps exciting to see, but it was more than that. It was a shimmering ring hanging in the sky. The event was spectacular, and I am so glad I was able to see it with my family.

Hello again! I'm the same Trey who wrote here back in 2017, having been hit by clouds minutes before totality at my home. I wanted to say that after nearly seven years I've finally managed an eclipse. I spent a total of nine hours driving today (four-and-a-half each way - I've just finally arrived home now), but it was worth it.

One random thought - the moon was bigger, relative to the corona, than photos had led me to expect. It was a pretty dramatic difference, actually. Is this just my experience, or have others had it too?

Regardless, thanks again for your site, which helped me pick a viewing location (I didn't have to do that last time!). My location was a few miles east of Gainesville, Missouri, at a sort of boat launch area thing on a river. It's a very picturesque river that runs through forested hills, so I thought it would be a nice setting, which it definitely was, even more so than I expected based on what it looked like on the map. It turned out I wasn't the only person with the same idea, there were a lot of others there, but it actually worked out really well. There was a very friendly atmosphere.