The STAR Library Education Network (STAR_Net) has developed this map every bit an add-on to its Eclipse Resource Center. Credit: NASA@ My Library initiative as well as the Moore Foundation.
It is straightaway less than 8 weeks to the solar eclipse. You tin sense the full eclipse anywhere along a narrow band stretching from Oregon to South Carolina.
If you lot are planning to sentiment the eclipse thence you lot volition demand a span of eclipse glasses. Thanks to the Space Science Institute (SSI) as well as the generous sponsorship of the Gordon as well as Betty Moore Foundation, Research Corporation as well as Google, 2 ane G 1000 pairs of gratis eclipse spectacles are existence given away yesteryear participating libraries across the United States.
There are over 2,000 participating libraries. You tin notice your closest on the Participating Eclipse Libraries interactive map. The participating libraries volition too accept eclipse background information for anybody who wants to acquire to a greater extent than nigh the astronomy of solar eclipses.
If you lot are yet planning where to sentiment the eclipse on August 21st thence you lot mightiness desire to consult NOAA's Cloudiness Map of the Eclipse. The map non exclusively shows you lot where you lot tin run across a full eclipse (the umbral path) exactly too tells you lot the run a peril of clouds along the eclipse's path, based on historical conditions data.
The map includes a publish of circles which are colored based on the run a peril of cloud cover. If you lot click on these circles you lot tin sentiment the per centum run a peril of having an unobstructed sentiment of the eclipse (based on the total of cloud comprehend at that location on August 21st inwards previous years).
Judging yesteryear the map Nebraska, Wyoming as well as Idaho are the states where you lot volition accept the best run a peril of an unobstructed view. However these states are non the best places to sentiment the eclipse inwards damage of duration. If you lot desire to sense the eclipse amongst the longest duration you lot demand to live close Carbondale inwards Illinois, where the Sun volition live completely obscured for 2 minutes as well as xl seconds.
NASA's Total Solar Eclipse Interactive Map too shows the path of the eclipse across the United States. NASA's map doesn't include information nigh the likelihood of cloud comprehend exactly it does allow you lot to notice out the duration of totality (how long the Sun volition live obscured) anywhere along the eclipse's path. Just click anywhere on the map to uncovering the fourth dimension of the eclipse at that location, how much of the Sun volition live obscured as well as how long the eclipse volition last.
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