Total Solar Eclipse 2017

[sheepherder]

https://www.space.com/33797-total-so...017-guide.html

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-total-...1st-years.html

On Aug. 21, 2017, people across the United States will see the sun disappear behind the moon, turning daylight into twilight, causing the temperature to drop rapidly and revealing massive streamers of light streaking through the sky around the silhouette of the moon. On that day, America will fall under the path of a total solar eclipse .

The so-called Great American Total Solar Eclipse will darken skies all the way from Oregon to South Carolina, along a stretch of land about 70 miles (113 kilometers) wide. People who descend upon this "path of totality" for the big event are in for an unforgettable experience.

If you miss the Aug. 21 eclipse, the next total solar eclipse in the continental U.S will occur on April 8, 2024. The line of totality will cross from Texas, up through the Midwest, almost directly over Indianapolis, Cleveland and Buffalo, New York, up over New England and out over Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. Carbondale, Illinois, will be in the crosshairs once again.

Totally cool. I'm outside the path of totality in the first eclipse, but the second will pass right over me.

The Science Channel is running teasers that they will broadcast it live starting at noon Monday, the 21st.

Interesting to note that the two continental US eclipses with be diagonal, with the second the mirror of the first.