220 million Americans live within one day's drive of this event. It will skirt Salem, Idaho Falls, and Jackson Hole; make a "direct hit" on Casper before splitting the difference between Kansas City and St. Louis; then blow by Nashville on its way to Charleston.
The totality of darkness (by duration and degree) will be greatest in Illinois and Kentucky: over 2 minutes and 40 seconds!
This maybe-once-in-a-lifetime event (for most of U.S.) will be worth skipping school and taking a day or two off from work to see.
In Oregon, the full eclipse will make landfall at 10:15 am. Stars will shine. Planets will come into view as if at night. The earth will be bathed in total darkness for 1 minute and 50 seconds! (A partial shadow of this eclipse will fall on Salem and four other state capitals.)
In Idaho, the complete shadow will embrace Idaho Falls and Rexburg for 1 minute 49 seconds and 2 minutes 17 seconds, respectively! (Those in Boise and Pocatello should relocate; they are NOT in the line of totality.)
At 11:35 am "night" will fall in Wyoming as the moon's shadow passes over the southern edge of the Grand Teton National Park for 2 minutes and 20 seconds! Weather permitting, this will be, perhaps, the most wondrous spectacle of nature in all of North America that day.
The eclipse will then cut through Nebraska...but nobody lives in Nebraska, so I'll skip it.
At 1:06 pm, St. Joseph (just an hour's drive north of Kansas City) will experience totality for 2 minutes and 38 seconds! This show will get even better as it heads eastward. (Those living in St. Louis should head southward to see it.)
From there the eclipse will pass over states too far from California -- and anyone I know -- for me to care. (If you live in those states, here's some helpful information for you.)
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm
This eclipse will cross America at supersonic speeds, moving to the east coast from the west in just 1 hour and 33 minutes. (It will look from outer space as if a giant hand had drawn a "slash" across the whole of the U.S..)
This maybe-once-in-a-lifetime event (for most of U.S.) will be worth skipping school and taking a day or two off from work to see.
In Oregon, the full eclipse will make landfall at 10:15 am. Stars will shine. Planets will come into view as if at night. The earth will be bathed in total darkness for 1 minute and 50 seconds! (A partial shadow of this eclipse will fall on Salem and four other state capitals.)
In Idaho, the complete shadow will embrace Idaho Falls and Rexburg for 1 minute 49 seconds and 2 minutes 17 seconds, respectively! (Those in Boise and Pocatello should relocate; they are NOT in the line of totality.)
At 11:35 am "night" will fall in Wyoming as the moon's shadow passes over the southern edge of the Grand Teton National Park for 2 minutes and 20 seconds! Weather permitting, this will be, perhaps, the most wondrous spectacle of nature in all of North America that day.
The eclipse will then cut through Nebraska...but nobody lives in Nebraska, so I'll skip it.
At 1:06 pm, St. Joseph (just an hour's drive north of Kansas City) will experience totality for 2 minutes and 38 seconds! This show will get even better as it heads eastward. (Those living in St. Louis should head southward to see it.)
From there the eclipse will pass over states too far from California -- and anyone I know -- for me to care. (If you live in those states, here's some helpful information for you.)
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm
This eclipse will cross America at supersonic speeds, moving to the east coast from the west in just 1 hour and 33 minutes. (It will look from outer space as if a giant hand had drawn a "slash" across the whole of the U.S..)
Another "American" eclipse will make landfall on April 8, 2024, with the zone of totality passing, surprisingly, through the same regions of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. (Is God trying to tell U.S. something?)
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024/
I, for one, will be travelling with my family (if at all possible) during that week of August 21, 2017. I've been looking forward to this event for over 20 years (when I first found out about it...and met my wife). This date seemed so impossibly far away back then!
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024/
I, for one, will be travelling with my family (if at all possible) during that week of August 21, 2017. I've been looking forward to this event for over 20 years (when I first found out about it...and met my wife). This date seemed so impossibly far away back then!
But now it's here. And so are we.
I pledged to see it with my loved ones. I hope I have that opportunity.
Looks like Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons will be our vacation spot this summer!
Hope to see you there!
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