(image: UM students viewing eclipse, 8/21/18)
Date: August 21, 2017
Eclipse Begins: 11:54 AM
Maximum Eclipse: 1:24 PM
Eclipse Ends: 2:52 PM
Duration: 2h 58m 11.2s
Magnitude: 0.926
Obscuration: 91.4%
This guide is based off of a similar guide by Linda Zellmer at Western Illinois University: http://wiu.libguides.com/eclipse2017.
The eclipse will be visible -- weather permitting -- across all of North America. The entire continent will experience a partial eclipse lasting two to three hours. Anyone within a 70-milewide path that stretches through 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina will experience a total eclipse. -NASA