
An eclipse is coming!
It's almost hard to believe. I feel like I have been looking forward to the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 for decades. Hmm. It HAS been a long time. Some folks have been looking ahead to this eclipse since the late 1970s. For me, I got hooked the first time I saw a total solar eclipse, August 11, 1999. I was aboard a cruise ship, the Stella Solaris, in the Black Sea. I was lucky to accompany the tour group from the Adler Planetarium, and it was a pretty large group. There