In a little less than three weeks, the moon will cross in front of the sun, creating a total solar eclipse.
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The next total solar eclipse will come early 2024.
And in the age of smartphones, when taking quick snapshots is as simple as reaching in purse or pocket, the urge to capture an event as heavily publicized as the August eclipse will be irresistible to many.
The sixth-graders will develop appropriate lessons for the lower grades, like making eclipse-related storybooks or videos, and younger students will draw or write about what happens during a solar eclipse. He’s been chasing them ever since. Filters for direct viewing of the Sun are typically sold in the form of wearable “eclipse glasses” or “eclipse shades” or as solar viewing cards that you hold in your hand.
Espenak, a scientist emeritus with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said weather plays a big factor in the eclipse’s visibility, no matter if you’re in its path of totality. Thanks to the University of Nebraska State Museum and the school’s science departments, kids, teens and adults will have a chance to learn the science behind the eclipse as well as take part in a public astronomical viewing to see galaxies and star clusters Friday through Sunday. You will be able to view the sun’s atmosphere, called the corona – a halo of exceedingly hot gas that’s invisible under normal circumstances. That’s a distance of nearly 2,500 miles, from OR to SC, and it will take the umbra just 94 minutes to travel that distance.
Looking at the sun through the filter should produce an image that’s comfortably bright, like the full moon as seen by the naked eye.
The eclipse will not cross IN, but it will IN parts of IL and Kentucky.
Depending on where you live, and provided the clouds don’t interfere, you will see the sun partially or, if you’re fortunate enough to be in the “path of totality”, completely disappear behind the moon.
21, beginning at about 11:48 p.m. the moon will begin crossing the sun. The day will turn to twilight for up to two minutes and 40 seconds. The path of totality will start in OR before making its way across the country; it will cut through 14 states in total, finally finishing up in SC. In downtown Orlando, the eclipse will peak at 2:51 p.m, according to Vox. In the days leading up to the eclipse, The Weather Channel will also air an “Official Countdown to The Total Solar Eclipse”.
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You must be in the path of totality to witness a total solar eclipse. There will be about a 70-mile-wide strip stretching from the West Coast to the East Coast that will experience a total eclipse. Anyone in the path of the umbra will see the total eclipse.
