A partial solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, October 23, 2014,^[1][2] with a magnitude of 0.81141. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. Occurring only 5.7 days after apogee (Apogee on October 18, 2014), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.

It was the 9th eclipse of the 153rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on July 28, 1870 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114.

The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth, passing above the North Pole, but a partial eclipse was visible at sunrise (October 24 local time) in far eastern Russia, and before sunset (October 23) across most of North America.

Animated path

• Simulated greatest partiality from Nunavut, Canada at sunset
• Seattle, Washington, 21:21 UTC
• San Jose, California, 21:26 UTC. The eclipse coincided with giant sunspot region 2192, the largest seen in 24 years.^[3]
• Minneapolis, Minnesota at 21:34 UTC
• Buchanan, Virginia, 21:44 UTC
• Austin, Texas, 22:00 UTC
• Joshua Tree National Park, 22:14 UTC
• Mentor, Ohio, 22:15 UTC
• Los Altos, California, 22:16 UTC
• College of DuPage, 22:28 UTC
• Mountain View, California, 22:33 UTC
• Melbourne, Florida, 22:38 UTC
• Denver, Colorado, 22:40 UTC
• Palo Alto, California, 22:42 UTC
• Cupertino, California, 22:47 UTC
• Coralville, Iowa, 22:56 UTC
• Composite image from Melbourne, Florida
• Composite image from Minneapolis, Minnesota