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Celestial Celebration

Americans Dazzled as Eclipse Turns Day into Night

The moon passes in front of the sun for a total solar eclipse visible from Farmington, Mo., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 in Farmington, Mo.
(Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP)

By MARCIA DUNN Millions of Americans gazed after she was moved to whoops and shouts from es.
AP Aerospace Writer in wonder at the cosmic tears by the sight of the sun people gathered in stadi- In Boise, Idaho, where the
The stars came out in the spectacle, with the best reduced to a silvery ring of ums, parks and backyards. sun was more than 99 per-
middle of the day, zoo ani- seats along the so-called light in Salem. It was, by all accounts, the cent blocked, the street
mals ran in agitated circles, path of totality that raced It took 90 minutes for the most-observed and most- lights flicked on briefly, while
crickets chirped, birds fell 2,600 miles (4,200 kilome- shadow of the moon to photographed eclipse in in Nashville, Tennessee,
silent and a chilly darkness ters) across the continent travel across the country. history, documented by people craned their necks
fell upon the land Monday from Oregon to South Car- Along that path, the moon satellites and high-altitude at the sky and knocked
as the U.S. witnessed its first olina. blotted out the midday balloons and watched on back longneck beers at
full-blown, coast-to-coast “It was a very primal ex- sun for about two won- Earth through telescopes, Nudie’s Honky Tonk bar.
solar eclipse since World perience,” Julie Vigeland, drous minutes at any one cameras and cardboard-
War I. of Portland, Oregon, said place, eliciting oohs, aahs, frame protective eyeglass- Continued on page 4