How and when to view the solar eclipse in…
The world will witness its first total solar eclipse in almost seven years on Monday.
Even though Minnesota won’t be in the path of totality, veteran University of Wisconsin-La Crosse planetarium director Bob Allen says that seeing an eclipse in any form is still “the most unearthly experience you can have on the earth.” So where in Minnesota should you stop and raise your head to see the celestial event?
The Bell Museum predicts a 75% partial eclipse over most of Minnesota. According to Allen, there will be at least an 80% partial eclipse over southeastern Minnesota. Around 1 p.m., it will begin, peak around 2 p.m., and end between 3:10 and 3:15 p.m. Find out when the eclipse will exactly occur in your location one clipse2024.org.
The most ethereal experience available on Earth.
Allen has studied astronomy for fifty years and has witnessed three total eclipses. In addition to Manitoba, Canada, in 1979, and Hawaii in 1991, he visited western Nebraska in 2017. On Wednesday, he is traveling to Arkansas in the hopes of seeing a fourth.
He remarked, “Partials are interesting.” It resembles someone entering an airplane with a parachute and one person leaping out while the other remains inside the aircraft and declares, “I’m not going to do it.” It offers a certain excitement.
According to NASA, partial solar eclipses, such as the one that will occur in Minnesota, happen when the moon partially obscures the sun and earth. It partially obscures the sun, forming a crescent. According to Allen, these eclipses cause lamps to switch on and change the light of the day to nightfall.
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