American Samoa will experience a partial solar eclipse on Tuesday
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first total solar eclipse anywhere in the world after the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 comes to the southern hemisphere on July 2, 2019.
The shadow of the Moon first touches Earth at the moment of sunrise at 37 South, 160 West in the South Pacific, east of New Zealand and south of Polynesia. Across the vast expanse of the Pacific, totality visits only one uninhabited island, Oeno, near Pitcairn Island.
The total phase of this solar eclipse is not visible in Pago Pago, but it can be observed there as a partial solar eclipse. Times for the partial eclipse viewable in American Samoa are 6:11 a.m. until 7:27 a.m.
The focus for most eclipse chasers will be Chile and Argentina. Because landfall happens near the end of the path of totality, it will be near sunset for those viewing the total solar eclipse. The total eclipse will be approximately 12 degrees high when crossing the Andes in Chile and this will cause eclipse chasers to be careful to select a site.