Total Solar Eclipse of 23 August 2044

Total eclipse · saros 126

23 August 2044

Eclipse day approaches

Greatest totality: 2m 04s; NASA catalogue central duration.
Magnitude: 1.036; Fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at greatest eclipse.

The order the shadow crosses the path, west → east.

1Greenland
2Canada
3United States

Totality crosses Greenland and northern Canada, ending over Montana and North Dakota.

Country sequence from the NASA GSFC catalogue. This is a schematic order, not a geographic map — see methodology.

Computed visibility map: shading shows how much of the Sun is covered at local maximum; the outlined dark band is the path of totality. — Where the 23 August 2044 eclipse is visible — computed from NASA Besselian elements on a fine world grid; gold shading is the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered at local maximum, the outlined band is totality. Coastlines: Natural Earth. Click the map to zoom.

The facts, in one place

Date (UT)	23 August 2044
Type	Total
Greatest totality	2m 04s
Magnitude	1.036
Saros series	126
Path countries	Greenland → Canada → United States

Why it matters: North America's warm-up act, one year before the great 2045 eclipse.

This page carries NASA catalogue facts only — no city timings yet. When this eclipse gets close enough to plan, it will get the same treatment as 2027 and 2028: local circumstances computed for the path cities with our validated engine, cloud climatology where a source exists, and honest dashes where one doesn't.

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Source: NASA GSFC eclipse catalogue (SEdecade tables), fetched 2026-08-09.