Carbondale, Ill., the home of Southern Illinois University, is promoting itself as the “Eclipse Crossroads of America.”(Photo: Carbondale Tourism)
The USA's best solar eclipse ever is coming Aug. 21. Starting on the West Coast in Oregon, the eclipse
will trace a 67-mile wide path east across the country, finally exiting
the East Coast in South Carolina.
The "path of totality," in which the moon's shadow sweeps across the Earth's surface, will cross parts of 12 states: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The
total eclipse begins in Oregon at 10:16 a.m. PDT. (To be the first
person on land to see the eclipse, be on the waterfront at Government
Point, Ore., at 10:15:56.5 a.m. PDT.) It will end near Charleston, S.C.,
at 2:48 p.m. EDT.
For the first time in 99 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the
United States. A small town in Illinois is the best place to see it.
Aidan Kelley has the story.
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In any given location, the total
eclipse will last about 2 or 3 minutes. It will take about an hour and a
half for the eclipse to move across the entire country.
Some of the larger cities directly in the path include Nashville, Tenn.; and Greenville,
Columbia and Charleston in South Carolina. Both Kansas City and St.
Louis, Mo., are barely outside the path, though parts of the cities'
metropolitan areas will see the total eclipse.
Smaller towns in the path include Salem,
Ore.; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Casper, Wyo.; Grand Island and Lincoln, Neb.;
St. Joseph and Columbia, Mo.; Bowling Green, Ky.,; Clarksville and Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and Anderson, S.C.
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