Eclipse on the Current Event

For enjoying the approximately three hours of the total eclipse on April 8, one must provide themselves with a way to look at the Sun without endangering his/her eyes. Eclipse glasses (available at many sites), #14 welding glass, or solar filters are excellent possibilities. ...

Eclipse on the Current activities will start on Friday night, April 5 and end Monday evening, April 8, in the hours following the main attraction, the Great American Eclipse of 2024. A weekly growing list of businesses, vendors, demonstrators and volunteers are becoming involved in creating a program designed to make sure the eclipse experience in Doniphan is unforgettable...

By Dan Slais Archaeoastronomy is the scientific investigation of the processes and practices of ancient peoples relative to their knowledge of the heavenly cosmos. Many cultures have left signs or markings to show ideas for calendars and solstices, the longest and shortest amounts of Sun during the year. ...

The April 7-8 Eclipse on the Current festival will be an excellent time for churches and clubs to sell T-shirts, baked goods, foods, and/or various craft items. It’s time to get creative and showcase what makes our community unique and special. Anything with an Eclipse or Current River theme is recommended. Such items will be marketable as a keepsake for stargazers who will want to commemorate their Great American Eclipse experience...

Two major crowd-pleasing events are set to take place in Doniphan the first week of April: the city’s Sixth Annual City-wide Spring Yard Sale on April 6, closely followed by the Great American Eclipse on April 8. While stargazers are seeking the ideal spots from which to view the eclipse, and bargain hunters are seeking for the ideal spots to get good buys...Doniphan will offer the best of both worlds...

Plans continue to fall in place for a two-day Eclipse on the Current festival, but although sponsors have been willing to invest money to help support the event, the community has not responded to appeals to help clean up the county. The city’s annual clean-up is set for May, but that won’t be soon enough...

An eclipse is a blocking of light when one heavenly body moves into the shadow of another heavenly body. Both the Sun and the Moon can get caught in shadows and disappear from view of the earth. A lunar eclipse occurs in the full moon phase when the Moon is in alignment with the earth-sun plane. ...

Current River Writers hope that area youth will respond to a call to enter a special writing contest they are hosting, which is inspired by two noteworthy celestial events. The Great Eclipse of 2024 is taking place just before the city of Piedmont, named the UFO capital of Missouri, celebrates the 1973 UFO sightings...

Plans are moving forward for a two-day festival April 7-8, which will feature local art, music and homespun goods. As the sun and moon are lining up for the Great American Eclipse, that once-in-a-lifetime celestial display will create a spectacular backdrop for Doniphan and Ripley County artisans to showcase their talents...

In a little less than nine weeks “company” is coming to Doniphan, on an unprecedented scale, to view the Great American Eclipse. As any good host or hostess knows, when company is coming, it’s time to “spring” clean the house, bring out the best linens, and make the grounds as presentable as possible...

Where the 2017 Great American Eclipse totality path covered 14 states and no other countries, the 2024 total solar eclipse will go through Mexico and into Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and into Canada. That’s only 13 states but two other countries...

Philip S. Harrington says in his book Eclipse!, “The sun holds the dubious distinction of being the only celestial object that may actually harm someone who looks at it directly.” Your eyes will tell you after a slight glance toward the sun, they turn you away. What makes looking at the sun so dangerous? The sun not only radiates visible light, but its photosphere or surface emits infrared and ultraviolet radiation...

After postponing its first meeting of 2024, the Doniphan City Council met Jan. 23 for a rescheduled session, and a full agenda which included several guests. The council heard a request by Erin Longo to close State Street from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., on April 8...

A first “regrouped” meeting for the Great American Eclipse in Doniphan was attended by 20 individuals ready to move forward, full steam ahead. Planners are seeking individuals, organizations and churches to provide art, music and ideas. Erin Longo, who rose to the challenge of taking up where the previous group, Total Eclipse of the Heartland, left off, said, “When I researched Total Eclipse of the Heartland, Doniphan didn’t even come up. ...

The Moon is our most obvious viewable space neighbor and its daily changing phases are remarkable. The Moon produces no light, it simply reflects light from the Sun. Ancient farmers knew the best time to plant different crops and the best time harvest options based on the Moon. ...

The sun is a star which has enough mass to produce gravity that will pull a whole system of objects around it. Quite a bit bigger than the earth, 1,300,000 earths could fit into the Sun. Our solar system includes eight planets, several sub-planets, asteroids, comets, meteors, dust and gas...