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If you can’t make it to the path of totality for the Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st (here’s information on places in the path of totality with events going on) there are several ways to celebrate the partial solar eclipse that will be taking place in the Triangle.
The College of Sciences at NC State University is putting on an Eclipse Day Celebration Monday, August 21st, 2017, from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., in the Brickyard. It’s free to attend.
There will be a limited number of free solar eclipse viewing glasses.
There is paid public parking is available in the Dan Allen Deck and Coliseum Deck, as well as in metered spots on Hillsborough Street.
The celebration will be full of science activities and eclipse-related fun, including:
- Safe ways to view the eclipse, including a telescope with solar filter, free solar glasses and a pinhole camera creation station
- Citizen science activities to monitor changes in weather and animal behavior over the course of the eclipse
- A mini weather tower on-site and real-time streams of solar observations and weather data along the path of totality
- Weather balloon launch with NC State’s Soundings Club
- Physics demonstrations
- Eclipse button giveaway
- Eclipse- and astronomy-themed materials available for checkout from NCSU Libraries
- Resource fair featuring a number of campus organizations
- Entertainment, including games like beanbag toss and Jenga
- Food and water stations, featuring Moon Pies
- Misting tents to keep you cool!
