rwoman
Apr 30, 12, 11:25 pm
USA Today: National parks offer prime views of celestial 'ring of fire' (http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/04/national-parks-solar-eclipse-may-20/683045/1)
Looks like some great viewing opportunities across the western states!!
:)
In the hours just before sunset on Sunday, May 20, the first solar eclipse in the USA in nearly two decades will dazzle viewers along a swath from the Pacific Coast to Texas.
And some of the best places to see the annular eclipse - one in which all but the outermost rim of the sun is blocked by the moon, leaving a "bull's eye" ring of sunlight - are national parks, where rangers and astronomers offer "solar parties" and other special programs.
Weather permitting , visitors at 33 national parks along the eclipse path will see the disc of the moon within the disc of the sun, with six parks - Redwoods and Lassen Volcanic in California; Zion in Utah, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona and Canyon De Chelly National Monument and Petroglyph National Monument, both in New Mexico – at the center of the eclipse path.
Looks like some great viewing opportunities across the western states!!
:)
In the hours just before sunset on Sunday, May 20, the first solar eclipse in the USA in nearly two decades will dazzle viewers along a swath from the Pacific Coast to Texas.
And some of the best places to see the annular eclipse - one in which all but the outermost rim of the sun is blocked by the moon, leaving a "bull's eye" ring of sunlight - are national parks, where rangers and astronomers offer "solar parties" and other special programs.
Weather permitting , visitors at 33 national parks along the eclipse path will see the disc of the moon within the disc of the sun, with six parks - Redwoods and Lassen Volcanic in California; Zion in Utah, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona and Canyon De Chelly National Monument and Petroglyph National Monument, both in New Mexico – at the center of the eclipse path.