Loyola University Maryland students gathered together on the Quad to witness the April 8 eclipse with an event sponsored by the university’s astronomy club.
The afternoon event saw students patiently waiting for first contact of the eclipse to begin around 2:05 p.m. with maximum obscuration of 88 percent in the Baltimore area happening at 3:21 p.m.. Dr. Inge Heyer, Professor of Physics at Loyola University Maryland says that the natural phenomenon is a “once in a lifetime opportunity.”
“The path of totality runs across oceans, since most of the Earth is covered in oceans or through deserts or jungles. It is hard to get to. You have to mount an expedition and people have done that. In the last couple of years, we’ve been lucky that there have been 3 eclipses that have gone across the United States. The one in 2017, and then the one in October of last year. It’s a once in a longtime opportunity because I think the next eclipse hat runs across the United States will be around 2044 or 2045,” she said.
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