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Here in central Pennsylvania, we won’t get a live view of today’s solar eclipse, which begins at 8:33 a.m. and concludes at 1:53 p.m., with a totality of just 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
The eclipse will be visible on the ground only in parts of Chile and Argentina, but there will be options for all of us to see it online.
NASA will begin broadcasting the views from Chile starting at 9:40 am, and a narrated program in Spanish from 10:30 am on Space.com and through the NASA website.
Slooh’s online observatory will broadcast the eclipse live starting at 9:30 a.m. and continuing until 12:45 p.m.
Today’s event is the only total solar eclipse of 2020.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon covers the face of the Sun and becomes as dark as night over the affected area of the Earth during the day.
The next total solar eclipse will occur on December 4, 2021, but it will only be visible in parts of Antarctica.
North America’s next transcontinental total solar eclipse will arrive on April 8, 2024.
Contact Marcus Schneck at [email protected].
