How I was turned into an eclipse chaser I recently made an eight hour drive to Oregon with my family and a few friends to see the total eclipse of the sun. I knew that by positioning ourselves in the 70 mile wide path of “totality” we were going to get the full cosmic effect […]
Poetry Corner: Johanna Ely “Serendipity”
We didn’t plan to leave town- thought the clouds might burn off in time, but then decided to drive south towards the band of light above the mountain. We drove as far as we could in thirty minutes, until we saw patches of blue sky and parked the car in a shopping center lot, in […]
Eclipse marred by clouds in Benicia
As the late Leonard Nimoy once remarked, “A solar eclipse, the cosmic ballet goes on.” Like the rest of the country, Benicia witnessed this space dance. Some even gathered with their fellow citizens to watch the moon partially block out the sun. Unfortunately, in many parts of Benicia, the eclipse was obscured by the overcast […]
Plenty of power available during tomorrow’s eclipse
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Special to the Herald The solar eclipse begins locally at 9:01 a.m. Monday, and while California is south of the path of totality, prepared Benicia residents with the proper equipment can watch as the sun is masked to a sliver by the moon. The maximum eclipse, when the moon […]
Benicia gears up for eclipse tomorrow
Tomorrow will be a historic moment for a lot of Americans. It will be the first time in 99 years that a total solar eclipse will be visible across the entire contiguous United States and the first time in 38 years that a total solar eclipse will be visible from any point in the contiguous […]