On Monday, August 21 at 9:06AM, the sun will begin to dim in the skies over the Oregon coast. About an hour later, at 10:19, the view of the sun will be completely blacked out by the moon. Temperatures will noticeably drop, stars will become visible, and an earie darkness will spread across the land. The darkness will last for about two minutes. It will mark the beginning of what is being called “The Great American Eclipse,” and its path will cut the United States in half.
A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, blocking out all or part of the sun. To put it simply, the area of the earth that sees total eclipse is in the full shadow of the moon. In a total eclipse, the sun is completely covered by the moon for a period of time. The earth is turning and the moon is rotating around the earth, so the moon’s shadow moves across the face of the earth. The path that is completely covered by the shadow of the moon is called “the path of totality.”
From Oregon, the path of totality will travel from the West Coast to the East Coast. It will go through Idaho Falls, Idaho; Casper, Wyoming; Lincoln, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; and Paducah, Kentucky. We won’t see a full solar eclipse here in Jeffersonville (we’re not in the path of totality). We will see our portion of the eclipse starting at about 1:00PM, with a maximum of 96% of the sun covered at 2:27PM. The path continues towards the southeast, going through Nashville, Tennessee; and then to the east coast at Charleston, South Carolina at 2:46 in the afternoon.
Solar eclipses are fairly common. The last time the United States saw a total eclipse was in 1979, but this one is far different than most. From start to finish, it will be the only country that the path of totality will pass through. Most eclipses meander over oceans, islands, and continents with no regard to landscapes or country borders. The last time we had a solar eclipse that was exclusive to the United States was in 1776, the same year our country gained its independance. The last total eclipse that was visible in the US was in 1979, but it was only visible in a few states. You have to go all the way back to 1257 for an eclipse that touched only mainland American soil (without any island territories).
What holds it there? We know it's been here for six thousand years; we have record of, that it's standing here in the same spot. And they can time it with the moon and stars so perfectly till it won't miss a second. They can predict it twenty years ahead when the eclipse of the sun will be, when the moon and sun passes.
Everything works in harmony to God, all of God's creation, but man. So man is His son, that feels that he knows just a little bit more than Father does. So we try to figure it all out, instead of just believing what He said about it. That's all.
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