This tiny sliver of Michigan is the best spot to watch the solar eclipse [View all]

(Detroit Free Press) Michigan residents will have a rare opportunity to view a total solar eclipse that's expected to cast a sizeable chunk of North America in darkness on April 8.

While Michigan doesn't fall in the eclipse's line of totality, the head of astronomy at the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Michael Narlock, said the state will get about 98% sun coverage. One small sliver of Monroe County falls on the edge of the path of totality.

The eclipse will begin at 1:58 p.m. and reach maximum totality, or coverage, around 3:14 p.m. in Detroit and southeast Michigan. It will conclude with a final partial eclipse at 4:27 p.m.

This year’s total eclipse will last longer than the one viewed by more than 20 million people in August 2017, and according to NASA won’t happen again for another 20 years. Fifteen total solar eclipses have been recorded in the U.S. in the last 150 years, with the next one expected in August 2044. .............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/19/2024-total-solar-eclipse-path-time-glasses-michigan/72424651007/