Eclipses have caused wonder for centuries, and Monday’s solar eclipse was no different.
El Dorado native Alexis Hatvick was enjoying the eclipse from outside Emporia State University’s Cram Science Hall. The junior secondary education major in chemistry and earth space sciences says the eclipse is an outstanding part of nature.
Emporia State University had well over 200 people gather outside Cram Hall, where physics professor Jorge Ballester was joining forces with other ESU instructors — Mark Brown, who was operating the university’s official live stream from outside Indianapolis, Indiana, and Scott Capes in Stephenville, Texas — to study the eclipse. The trio were studying light decreases, temperature changes, ultraviolet radiation changes and other aspects of the eclipse, but Ballester says the eclipse offered a local flavor to a worldwide event.
Emporia had 88 percent totality for the eclipse. The next solar eclipse to be seen across the United States will be Aug. 23, 2044.
*Click here for a YouTube Short from the Emporia State gathering.
Photos by Chuck Samples/KVOE News
