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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn this day, March 7, 1970, residents of the Atlantic coast were treated to a total solar eclipse.
I hitchhiked to Virginia Beach to see it. I recall the day for something really, really stupid I did several hours later. I still wonder what the hell I was thinking. Sorry, no details.
Solar eclipse of March 7, 1970
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A total solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, March 7, 1970, visible across most of North America and Central America.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.
Totality was visible across southern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, the southeast Atlantic coast of the United States, northeast to the Maritimes of eastern Canada, and northern Miquelon-Langlade in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Greatest eclipse occurred over Mexico at 11:38 am CST, with totality lasting 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Totality over the U.S. lasted up to 3 minutes and 10 seconds. The media declared Perry as the first municipality in Florida to be in the eclipse direct path.
Inclement weather obstructed the viewing from that location and most of the eclipse path through the remainder of the southern states. There will not be an eclipse with a greater duration of totality over the contiguous U.S. until April 8, 2024, a period of 54 years.
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A total solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, March 7, 1970, visible across most of North America and Central America.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.
Totality was visible across southern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, the southeast Atlantic coast of the United States, northeast to the Maritimes of eastern Canada, and northern Miquelon-Langlade in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Greatest eclipse occurred over Mexico at 11:38 am CST, with totality lasting 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Totality over the U.S. lasted up to 3 minutes and 10 seconds. The media declared Perry as the first municipality in Florida to be in the eclipse direct path.
Inclement weather obstructed the viewing from that location and most of the eclipse path through the remainder of the southern states. There will not be an eclipse with a greater duration of totality over the contiguous U.S. until April 8, 2024, a period of 54 years.
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On this day, March 7, 1970, residents of the Atlantic coast were treated to a total solar eclipse. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2020
OP
If your name is any indication, it would have been a long trip for you.
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2020
#2
I think the visible from Antigonish was a different eclipse. I'm on a phone,
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2020
#6
Hokie
(4,288 posts)1. I recall that eclipse. It was on a Saturday too
I was in college in Virginia. We had about 90% coverage at the maximum. It was like twilight.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)2. If your name is any indication, it would have been a long trip for you.
I was in Charlottesville. A lot of people were making the trip. I had no problem getting a ride.
Hokie
(4,288 posts)9. Yes, I was in Blacksburg
I think you had to drive to Norfolk to catch the total eclipse.
Squeaky41
(163 posts)3. I was in Boston
working as engineer at WKBG-TV.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)4. I remember the eclipse well. I was in Charleston, SC.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)5. I flew my
Lear Jet to Nova Scotia, to see a total eclipse of the sun.
(Kudos to those who remember that line!)
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)6. I think the visible from Antigonish was a different eclipse. I'm on a phone,
so its hard for me to check.
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)7. I had a few of those non-repeatable rxperiences
I cant even remember the ladies Names. Just reprehensible.
yardwork
(61,698 posts)8. I remember. My Girl Scout troop made viewers.