Total Solar Eclipse 2017

Progressive proofs from my "Ode to Pluto" print edition (2014)

On Monday, August 21, 2017, North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the "path of totality" can see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk

This celestial event blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979

(info from https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-who-what-where-when-and-how)