The Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County will be celebrating the solar eclipse on Monday with a special community viewing event. There will be a limited number of glasses that will be available for use on-site between 11:45 in the morning and 1:45 in the afternoon. In addition, Jerry Wilcoxen, professional photographer and backyard astronomer, will be present with his solar-filtered binoculars for visitors to view the eclipse.The Library was awarded a limited number of protection glasses from The Space Science Institute. Those glasses have already been distributed to area schools in the county and to the public.
On Monday all of North America will experience an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see an awe-inspiring sight- a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun, 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. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.
Regionally, the moon’s dark shadow will cut diagonally across Missouri between 1:04 p.m. and 1:22 p.m. creating a total solar eclipse. The shadow will just graze Missouri’s two largest cities, Kansas City and Saint Louis, cutting both about in half.
Baxter County will experience a partial eclipse, of about 94% magnitude, lasting two hours and 57 minutes. According to eclipsecountdown.com, the partial eclipse will start at 11:46am and end at 2:44pm, with the maximum eclipse being viewed at 1:16pm.
For information on all Library programs, visit the Librarys website at http://www.baxlib.org/. The Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County is located at 300 Library Hill in Mountain Home.
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