Hi Igor, Yes, I live in the path of totality & the center line crosses exactly 1 mile north of my workplace in Alda, NE. The Crane Meadows (I80 & Alda exit - just west of Grand Island) is hosting, as is the town of Ravenna, NE (directly on the center line about 45 minutes NW of Grand Island. Homestead National Monument, near Beatrice in SE Nebraska is another place. Other Nebraska options: http://neclipse17.com/
Hope this helps. Darren On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:23 PM Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > > After cleaning up the volcanoes and feeding the dragons, I finally had a > thought about what we should do for the solar eclipse. > > Since Texas is not in the totality path, we are entertaining an option of > taking a 2-day trip to drive to the totality path, so that my daughter can > see such an event. (Driving there on Aug.20, staying overnight at some > inexpensive hotel [I actually started worrying if they will be all booked > at this point], and then driving back shortly after the totality.) > > It turns out that several areas along the path are within about 12-hour > driving distance from us: from Southern Illinois (or even Kentucky) to > several destinations in Missouri, to Nebraska. > It would be a big disappointment to drive that far and to be covered by > clouds. After looking at this information: > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/16/how-to-avoid-clouds-that-could-spoil-the-great-american-eclipse/?utm_term=.6527b0f3aec1&tid=a_inl > , we are thinking that Carbondale, IL, Jefferson City, MO, or rural > Nebraska south-west of Lincoln (in the vicinity of I-80) could be the best > options. > > I was wondering if anybody in Midwest is considering going to the eclipse > totality path, and if so, - where? > > Darren, if I am correct, you are close to that part of Nebraska, right? > We are considering somewhere in the vicinity of the intersection of I-80 > and Hwy-81. > Any recommendations on what would be a good place to observe the eclipse? > (An advantage of Nebraska is that it might be possible to drive somewhat > east or west to go outside a local cloud in case that would happen.) > Do you know of any fun observation points/events set up in that area? > > (I am aware of https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/event-locations , but couldn't > find anything happening in that part of Nebraska.) > > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
