![]() Astronauts will do the same with cameras aboard the International Space Station. ![]() Satellites and ground telescopes will also aim at the sun and at the moon’s shadow cutting a swath 60 to 70 miles wide (97 to 113km) across the land. The student-launched, high-altitude balloons will beam back live video of the eclipse along the route. “This is a really amazing chance to just open the public’s eyes to wonder,” says Montana State University’s Angela Des Jardins, a physicist in charge of a Nasa eclipse ballooning project. By a cosmic quirk of the calendar, the Little Green Men Days festival will be in full swing in Kelly, Kentucky, as will the American Atheists’ annual convention in North Charleston, South Carolina.Īnd where better to fill up on eclipse T-shirts and safety glasses and eclipse burgers than the Eclipse Kitchen in Makanda, Illinois. Minor league baseball teams will halt play for “eclipse delays” in Salem, Oregon, and elsewhere. The Astronomical League for amateur astronomers is holing up at Casper, Wyoming.
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