Solar Eclipse Shines Over McKendree
By Madison Rohn, Lead Editor
Photography by Phoebe McCutcheon, Madison Rohn, and Mia Wylie
On the afternoon of Monday, April 8th, students gazed through glasses at the sky to watch the Great American Eclipse pass over McKendree.
Even the Bearcat statue wore protective glasses to watch the eclipse! Photo by Madison Rohn.
This year’s eclipse was a total solar eclipse, in which the moon travels between the sun and the Earth, covering our view of the sun. McKendree’s campus was in an area of 99.7% totality, meaning that almost all of the sun was covered during the peak of the eclipse, which occurred around 2:00 P.M. (Padilla & Zaiets, 2024). The next solar eclipse in the U.S. isn’t until 2044, so this phenomenon was worth celebrating (Padilla & Zaiets, 2024).
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