When is the next eclipse where you live?

The last total eclipse at my location was in 1724 and the next will be in 2090. The average gap is supposed to be about 360 years, so that's just about on the mark. Your 1,000 year gap is unusually long.

As you can see from this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Solar_Ecli... there are quite a few places which have a 1000+ year gap. I read an article in Sky & Telescope years ago which extended the time span of a map like this with totality tracks added until all places were covered. I think it took about 5,000 years to get the lot.

You seem to have miss-understood the data you are looking at.

There is a Total Solar Eclipse at least ONCE a year. Just not in the United States.

There is a Total Solar Eclipse in November this year (2012) but it will only be visible in Australia or out at SEA.

As seen from the Earth, a Solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses only part of the Sun is obscured.

If the Moon were in a circular orbit close enough to the Earth and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every single month. However, the Moon's orbit is angled at more than 5 degrees to the earth's orbit around the sun (see ecliptic) so its shadow at new moon often misses the Earth. The Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moon's orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur. In addition, the Moon's actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from the Earth so that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun totally. The orbital planes cross each year at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses.Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any particular location because totality exists only along a narrow path on the Earth's surface traced by the Moon's shadow or umbra.

I live in Kuwait. We are supposed to get a total eclipse in 2034, followed by another one in 2081. My city will miss the 2114 total eclipse, but the central path is just less than an hour drive. We will get another total one in 2135. The total eclipse of 2180 will be very close by. Is this enough or should I go on?!! ;)

I'm surprised that you don't get eclipses as much as we do. Where do you live?!!

Geez you guys she wants you to check your location and report back with the findings.