Don’t Worry Texas Solar Eclipse Enthusiasts, 2024 Will Be A Much Better View

HOUSTON, TX — Hey Texas stargazers, keep those viewing glasses around. Texans will get a bigger and better view of a solar eclipse in 2024.

Though many Houstonians flocked to viewing parties on Monday afternoon to watch partiality of a total eclipse that swept the United States, the Lone Star State will get full exposure in seven years.

Monday’s path went from the northwest coast in Oregon to the southeast coast in South Carolina. America’s next great eclipse will happen on April 8, 2024 when the path arrives in Texas via Mexico and travels a path northeasterly and leaves the U.S. through Maine into southeastern Canada.

Houstonians who watched Monday’s eclipse through special glasses, cereal boxes, colanders or other modified material only witnessed about 67 percent eclipse.

Though Houston won’t see a total eclipse in 2024 (neither will Corpus Christi), it will be very near, and just a short dive to go see one. The path is projected to enter Texas between Laredo and Del Rio, and then move over the western half of San Antonio, through the Hill Country and then directly over Austin, Waco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Tyler and Texarkana before moving into southeastern Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas.

And there will be no need to miss a school day or, for most, a day of work in 2024 as April 8 falls on a Saturday.

The next solar eclipse that crosses North America after that will be in 2045, when part of the Texas panhandle will experience totality.

Top image: A crowd watches the solar eclipse from Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu