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 in addition to the Moore Foundation.
It is at in i lawsuit less than 8 weeks to the solar eclipse. You tin forcefulness out sense the full eclipse anywhere along a narrow band stretching from Oregon to South Carolina.
If you lot are planning to stance the eclipse thus you lot volition demand a twain of eclipse glasses. Thanks to the Space Science Institute (SSI) in addition to the generous sponsorship of the Gordon in addition to Betty Moore Foundation, Research Corporation in addition to Google, 2 1000000 pairs of costless eclipse spectacles are existence given away yesteryear participating libraries across the United States.
There are over 2,000 participating libraries. You tin forcefulness out notice your closest on the Participating Eclipse Libraries interactive map. The participating libraries volition every bit good convey eclipse background information for anybody who wants to acquire to a greater extent than most the astronomy of solar eclipses.
If you lot are nonetheless planning where to stance the eclipse on August 21st thus you lot powerfulness desire to consult NOAA's Cloudiness Map of the Eclipse. The map non exclusively shows you lot where you lot tin forcefulness out encounter a full eclipse (the umbral path) only every bit good tells you lot the jeopardy 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 jeopardy of cloud cover. If you lot click on these circles you lot tin forcefulness out stance the percent jeopardy of having an unobstructed stance of the eclipse (based on the total of cloud comprehend at that location on August 21st inward previous years).
Judging yesteryear the map Nebraska, Wyoming in addition to Idaho are the states where you lot volition convey the best jeopardy of an unobstructed view. However these states are non the best places to stance the eclipse inward price of duration. If you lot desire to sense the eclipse alongside the longest duration you lot demand to live nigh Carbondale inward Illinois, where the Sun volition live completely obscured for 2 minutes in addition to xl seconds.
NASA's Total Solar Eclipse Interactive Map every bit good shows the path of the eclipse across the United States. NASA's map doesn't include information most the likelihood of cloud comprehend only 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 in addition to how long the eclipse volition last.
