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Dogs may wmne, automatic street lights may switch on, chickens may settle down to roost, and astronomers may chortle with delight on Feb. 26 when the sun goes out—or briefly seems to.
It’s the morning of the total solar eclipse, the last one that anybody will see in North America this century. The next will occur in 2017.
This is one of nature's most spectacular periodic shows, occurring when the sun casts the moon’s shadow onto the earth, and it sweeps across the land like a black spotlight.
The eclipse will be seen throughout the United States wherever it is not cloudy the morning of Feb. 26, the National Geographic Society says.
In most places it will be a partial eclipse with the disk of the moon covering only part of the sun, looking today as it did to the ancients—as though a giant bite had been taken out of the sun’s edge.
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But to anybody living within a wide band stretching across North America the su# briefly will be blotted out totally as the center of the moon’s shadow, or umbra, streaks past.
Sweeping in from the pacific, this part of the moon’s shadow will first hit the Uaited States at the Oregon-Washington coast just after 8 a.m.
Then, moving eastward at an average of 1,700 miles an hour, it will pass up the Columbia River valley, across northern Idaho, central Montana, northwestern North Dakota, and into Canada.
The shadow’s path—with a maximum width of 195 miles—then will angle northward through Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. At last, crossing Hudson Bay, it will sweep over Quebec, Baffin Island, and end at
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