The next solar eclipse is coming soon! On October 2, 2024, an annular eclipse will cross the Pacific Ocean, Easter Island, Chile, and Argentina. We won’t be able to make it to the path of annularity, but our official headquarters for the event will be in Hawaii.

In Hawaii and much of the Pacific, the eclipse will be “just” a partial eclipse. While interesting, it’s hardly worth traveling for a partial eclipse. But there’s an exception, and that is if the eclipse occurs at sunrise (or sunset). And in Hawaii, the eclipse will take place at sunrise. Instead of a normal sunrise, it will be a crescent sun that rises over Hawaii, and we’ll be there to see it. You can read more about the phenomenon at our sister site, SunriseEclipse.com, and, of course, there’s still time to get eclipse glasses from MyEclipseGlasses.com.

The picture shown above, without any special lenses or filters, was taken of the sunrise eclipse of June 10, 2021. That’s the view we’ll have in Hawaii (but without the Statue of Liberty).  We were rained out for the 2021 sunrise eclipse over Lake Superior, but we’ll be making up for it in Hawaii.

Sunrise eclipse. Be there. Aloha.

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons photo by Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States – Statue of Liberty Annular Solar Eclipse, CC BY 2.0.