2024 Eclipse Events
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Pick up Previously Reserved Eclipse Glases
Pick up your glasses in the first week of April, April 1st-April 7th.
The total solar eclipse will take place in the afternoon on Monday, April 8th.
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Chasing the Moon's Shadow: Your Guide to the 2024 Solar Eclipse
Tuesday, March 19th 6:30-7:30PM
Get ready for a fantastic family experience, just A few weeks before the Great North American eclipse of 2024 on April 8th! The stage is set for a captivating presentation that will delight family members of all ages. NASA Solar System Ambassador Pat Monteith will take families on a journey through the upcoming eclipse.
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Teen Crafternoon: Moon Suncatchers
Wednesday, March 20th 3-4:30pm
Create sparkling moon shaped suncatchers. Plenty of various colored crystals will be provided for those in attendance to select from. This program is intended for Teens Only! If there are spots still available, adults may sign-up starting March 13th.
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Planetarium: One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure
Saturday, March 23rd, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure. Big Bird and Elmo explore the night sky with their friend Hu Hu Zhu from China. They take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon where they discover how different the moon is from Earth.
This show is geared to children ages 4-7 with a guardian or caretaker.
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Planetarium: From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA
Saturday, March 23rd, 11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Featuring real NASA missions that highlight the extreme nature of space engineering, …The five major aspects of a mission lifecycle—design, construction, testing, launch, and operations—are highlighted through examples of NASA missions, including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the James Webb Space Telescope
This show is geared to children ages 6-11 with a guardian or caretaker.
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Planetarium: Expedition Reef
Saturday, March 23rd, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Expedition Reef show reveals in exquisite detail the breathtaking beauty and biodiversity of coral reefs—and the scientists taking action to restore them. Learn the secrets of the "rainforests of the sea" as you and your visitors embark on an oceanic safari to the world’s most vibrant — and endangered — marine ecosystems.
This show is geared to children 8+ through adults.
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Planetarium: Touching the Edge of the Universe
Saturday, March 23, 1:45—2:15 PM
See how space telescopes unveil events that our eyes cannot see. How they observe the birth of stars and planets and look back to the very beginning of time.
This show is geared toward teens and adults.
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Check out our Eclipse StoryWalk®!
Check out our StoryWalk® outside starting March 29th until April 26th!
Eclipse by Andy Rash
After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special.
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Solar Eclipse Pastel Art
Saturday, March 30th, 10:30 AM—4:00 PM
Drop by and draw the solar eclipse before it happens on April 8, 2024!
Using a template, black cardstock, and white oil pastel, you will easily draw the corona of the sun when it moves behind the moon. This is a drop in event but supplies and instructions will be provided.
Caregivers should remain with children to assist. Best for ages 5 and up, although all ages are welcome to attend.
No registration is required.
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Eclipse Viewfinder Box Craft
Tuesday, April 2nd 3-5pm
Join the Children's and YA Librarians in assembling view finder boxes to create a different alternative to safely view the eclipse on April 8th.
Intended for Teens and Children (and their caregivers)
Eclipse Resources and Information
NASA Science
2024 Total Eclipse: Where & When
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, United States, and Canada.
Follow this link for information on the Total Eclipse from NASA.
Solar Eclipse Safety
Safety is the number one priority when viewing a total solar eclipse. Be sure you're familiar with when you need to wear specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing by reviewing these safety guidelines.
Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, it is not safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection for solar viewing.
Viewing any part of the bright Sun through a camera lens, binoculars, or a telescope without a special-purpose solar filter secured over the front of the optics will instantly cause severe eye injury.
When watching the partial phases of the solar eclipse directly with your eyes, which happens before and after totality, you must look through safe solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”) or a safe handheld solar viewer at all times. Eclipse glasses are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses, no matter how dark, are not safe for viewing the Sun.
Follow this link for information on these safety guidelines.
How Can You Tell If Your Eclipse Glasses or Handheld Solar Viewers Are Safe?
The Astronomical Society gives us both a short and long expiation on the rules of observing a solar eclipse and explains to us the first and foremost rule is safety first.
To find these short and long explanations on how to tell, click here.
Time and Date
This Website will show you the path of the Solar Eclipse in your city! Where it includes the peak eclipse times, the path the eclipse will take and interactive maps with phase animations, and much more. This Eclipse calculator will also tell you when the eclipse will be visible and most visible in your area and what it will look like.
Click here to be brought to Time and Date.
Educational material on understanding Eclipses
Eclipse Simulation Video
This Eclipse Simulation Video demonstrates what will occur during the solar eclipse. On this website you can interact and control the speed at which the video plays by clicking and dragging the circles on the red bars.
Click here to be brought to the Eclipse Simulation Video.
Eclipse Legends Around the World
Traditions from around the world imagine the eclipse as everything from the Sun being eaten by monsters to an intimate meeting with the moon.
Click here to be brought to the Eclipse Legends Around the World.
NASA - What Is an Eclipse (Grades K-8)
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
What is a Solar Eclipse?
Why Does NASA Study Eclipses?
(Grades K-4)
Click here to be brought to find out more Grades K-4!
(Grades 5-8)
Click here to be brought to find out more Grades 5-8!