TWILIGHT IN NEBRASKA – SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017

According to a database, the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers experienced a total solar eclipse the last time in the year 310 AD!  And you certainly don’t want to miss the golden opportunity of experiencing the one upcoming where the Sun’s corona shimmering in the darkened sky will make daytime a deep twilight, with the Moon completely blocking the Sun! Nebraska Sand-hills, with favorable viewing conditions with a 74% probability has already been named as the #4 spot in the nation to experience the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Considering the combined with the big dark skies, a great hospitality of western culture and easily accessible highways. 

From Oregon to South Carolina, a 67-mile-wide path of totality will be traced by the eclipse across the country. Areas outside the path of totality will get a partial solar eclipse only. West central Nebraska on Solar Eclipse 2017 Map is a perfect destination where nature's most wondrous spectacle— a total eclipse of the Sun, on August 21, 2017 will be witnessed by millions of people across the United States. Former North Platte resident Darryl Barr, an amateur astronomer and avid eclipse chaser himself who is also helping North Platte develop its eclipse event, suggests you to consider west central Nebraska on your list of destinations for the 21 August 2017 total solar Eclipse. 

With two minutes and 34 seconds of totality, the umbrae is going to make almost a direct hit in the communities of Tryon and Stapleton where the festival viewing sites are already being planned, on Solar Eclipse 2017 Map. To see a lot of the eclipse, for about a minute and forty seconds at 12:54pm CDT, North Platte itself is sitting in a good position. A distance of 251 miles, starting at about a mile marker 152 (between Paxton and Village of Sutherland), and Interstate 80 will be in the path of totality all the way to Lincoln. 

On August 21, 2017, America is going to be treated with its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years. Also this is the first total eclipse exclusive to the U.S. since 1776, before the nation was founded, making it the NATIONAL ECLIPSE. You are advised to be located within the narrow path of totality represented on the Solar Eclipse 2017 map to experience the complete eclipse.