Ephemeris

The Great American Eclipse

21 August 2017 · 13:20 · Carbondale, United States

The Great American Eclipse: Aestilune

At 1:20 pm the Moon covered the Sun over Carbondale, near the point of longest totality of the first coast-to-coast eclipse in 99 years. The weather and the sky of that afternoon.

The weather that day

  • 23.1 to 32.5 °C, partly cloudy, 0.7 mm of rain.
  • A south wind, 7 km/h on average, and pressure from 1018 to 1017 hPa.

The sky

  • Sunrise at 06:18, sunset at 19:41.
  • The moon: new moon, 0% lit.

Its name

Aestilune: Heat climbing to 32 °C, and sun and cloud in turn: summer in Carbondale.

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Weather: ERA5 reanalysis, Copernicus Climate Change Service. Not made by AI.