Friends and neighbors don their protective eyewear and gather on the Causeway Road beach in Fairhaven on 4/8/24 to witness the eclipse, when Fairhaven experienced 92% totality. Photo by Margie Green Joseph.
By Beth David, Editor
In parts of northern New England, the solar eclipse reached “totality,” meaning the sun was completely blocked out by the moon passing by in the middle of the day.
Around here, we had 92% and it barely got a little dark. But if you looked up (with the right eye protection, of course), you would have seen just a sliver of the sun lighting our little part of the world, proving again how powerful that star is.
All around the region, in school parking lots, on beaches, in yards, people donned the special, protective glasses and had a little party for the event that lasted about four minutes. The narrow path of totality went from Mexico to Canada, with prime viewing spots in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. All the news outlets followed the moon as it covered the sun from morning until sunset.
The next eclipse in the U.S. will occur on 8/22/44, with totality in North Dakota and Montana. The next total solar eclipse spanning the whole contiguous U.S. will be 8/12/45.
Learn more at https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/
Oliver Brodo uses special glasses to watch the eclipse on the Causeway Road beach in Fairhaven on 4/8/24, when Fairhaven experienced 92% totality. Photo by Margie Green Joseph.
Marc Dunn uses special glasses to watch the eclipse on the Causeway Road beach in Fairhaven on 4/8/24, when Fairhaven experienced 92% totality. Photo by Margie Green Joseph.
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