Post by Odysseus on Mar 23, 2024 20:13:28 GMT
Unfortunately, where I am in California, it might not be much. But in the mid-west, it could be spectacular!
How lucky can the residents of Carbondale, Illinois, be?
Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth's surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average.
The 30,000 residents of the Midwestern city will probably chuckle at that statistic because they are about to witness the Moon block out the Sun's disc for the second time in just seven years.
And what's more, the upcoming 8 April eclipse will be even better than the one they got to see in 2017. The sky will go pitch black for 4 minutes and 9 seconds, nearly double what happened last time. ...
Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth's surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average.
The 30,000 residents of the Midwestern city will probably chuckle at that statistic because they are about to witness the Moon block out the Sun's disc for the second time in just seven years.
And what's more, the upcoming 8 April eclipse will be even better than the one they got to see in 2017. The sky will go pitch black for 4 minutes and 9 seconds, nearly double what happened last time. ...
