In Yucatán, the Great Mexican Eclipse 2024 will be partially observed on April 8, due to the geographical location.
In Yucatán, the Great Mexican Eclipse 2024 will be partially observed on April 8, due to the geographical location of the State: the Moon will only hide about 60 percent of the Sun, reported Yucatecan astronomer Eddie Ariel Salazar Gamboa.
Therefore, it will be fully appreciated from the Yucatecan coast to the archaeological areas open to the public, as long as atmospheric conditions allow it.
According to the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the port of Mazatlán, the eclipse will begin at 9:51:23 a.m., so the total phase of the phenomenon will begin at 11:07 a.m.:25 a.m. and will end at 11:11:45 a.m. so that the event will end at 12:32:09 p.m.
In Mazatlán, the total eclipse will last four minutes and 20 seconds, the longest period on the entire continent.
By counting the partial and total stages, the duration of the eclipse will be two hours and 41 minutes.
Most of the country will experience a partial eclipse, such as Mexico City, where the Moon will cover 79 percent of the solar disk.
The academic from the Mérida Technological Institute (ITM) explained that, in the case of Mérida, this event will begin at 11:18:19 a.m., will have its maximum partiality at 12:35:08 a.m. and will conclude at 1:52:18 p.m. hours, so the duration will be two hours, 33 minutes and 59 seconds.
He clarified that the maximum occultation for the Yucatecan capital will be 59.7 percent, while for towns it will range between 59.8 and 60.8 percent.
Only for Chichén Itzá, the maximum phase of the eclipse is 58.9 percent, while in Sisal, the port police station of Hunucmá, and in Tekax it will be 60.1 percent, said the emeritus professor of the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY).
In Uxmal, the occultation of the solar disk will be 60.5 percent; in Maxcanú it will be 60.6 percent, and in Celestún, 60.8 percent.
The coordinator of the Astronomy Group “Hypatia de Alejandría” of the ITM explained that in Campeche it will be 61.7 percent, and in Chetumal, 60.6 percent.
“There are 64 days left until the total eclipse of the Sun visible in Mexico, which is the second most anticipated in two years, since the previous one was the annular eclipse of the Sun, called “The Ring of Fire”, which occurred on October 14, 2023. ”, highlighted the “Jaguar of Tourism 2020” award from the Mexican Association of the Tourism Industry (AMIT) Yucatán.
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