2017 solar eclipse captivates America
Carrie Trochim, 34, on left, and colleague, Kirsten Polley, 26 test out eclipse glasses on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus on Aug. 15, 2017. They were among the last customers to snap up glasses from the bookstore before it ran out of its stock of 10,000 pairs.
Eclipse glasses are displayed for sale on Aug. 14, 2017 at a Roth's Markets grocery store in Salem, Ore.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 15, 2017 about the coming eclipse that will cross Oregon on Aug. 21, 2017.
Griffin Moore makes solar eclipse related shirts at her Griffin's Studio on Aug. 16, 2017, in Hopkinsville, Ky. Hopkinsville, in Western Kentucky, is located near the point of greatest totality for the Aug. 21 eclipse. The eclipse will cut a path of totality 70 miles wide across the United States from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina.
Arlon 'A.J.' Casey Jones and his wife Peg Hays, owners of the Casey Jones Distillery, hold bottles of Total Eclipse Moonshine which they distilled with the still behind them to commemorate the upcoming solar eclipse on Aug. 16, 2017 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The distillery, which is located two miles from the point of greatest totality for the Aug. 21 eclipse, expects to host as many as 3,500 people who plan to view the eclipse from their grounds just outside of Hopkinsville.
An eclipse countdown clock sits among a display of Total Eclipse Moonshine.
Agnes Busch, 90, the former owner of the 1976 GMC recreational vehicle that was converted into the Mobile Earth & Space Observatory, watches as people tour the mobile observatory outside the MESO office in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Aug. 15, 2017. A team from the Pikes Peak Observatory will drive it to Nebraska to participate in the Citizen CATE project that will document the solar eclipse on Monday.
Dave Dardis owner of the Rainmaker art studio, shop, and gardens in Makanda, Ill. talks about the 'Solar Eclipse Pendants' he created on July 19, 2017. Makanda will get two minutes, 40.2 seconds of darkness during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, more than anywhere else in the United States.
Riley Martin stands on a desk holding a cell phone with a light on it to mimic the sun as Lindsey Davis, left, Rebecca McPherson, right, and Preston Davis, demonstrate how they plan to observe the coming solar eclipse in Spencer, Ind. on Aug. 11, 2017. Students have made models of the solar system to demonstrate what happens during an eclipse, putting a miniature moon between a tiny Earth and model sun.
Astronomer Forrest Hamilton shows off one of the telescopes that he will take with him when he travels to see the total solar eclipse in Walton, Ind. The telescope includes a spot to place an iPhone to record video of the eclipse.
A worker at Ace Hardware fans out eclipse glasses for sale at the store in Spring City, Tenn on Aug. 11, 2017. Thousands are expected to flock to the small Rhea County town, which is home to about 2000 residents, to view the solar eclipse.
Ilaeka Villa, who owns the nearby Grandview Mountain Cottages and Glamor Camping venue, leaves Hassler's Drugs in Spring City, Tenn on Aug. 11, 2017. Villa said that the cottages on their property were fully booked more than a year and a half ago for the upcoming solar eclipse.
Kenyon Kilby, Doyle Daniels, Jason Yuhas and Nathan Reed, from left, with Spring City Public Works install additional power outlets in the Spring City Nature Park in preparation for the upcoming eclipse, in Spring City, Tenn on Aug. 11, 2017.
Amateur astronomer Mike Conley practices with the telescope he will use to document the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, at his home in Salem, Ore on Aug. 3, 2017. Conley is part of a project led by the National Solar Observatory to have dozens of citizen-scientists posted across the U.S. photograph the celestial event in an effort to create a live movie of its path that will help scientists learn more about the sun's corona.
An 8-foot balloon carrying a camera rises into the sky during a test launch at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn on Aug. 9, 2017. A team from the University of Bridgeport and the University of Hartford conducted the test as part a project that will send cameras into the stratosphere to photograph the solar eclipse.
An advertisement for a central Oregon festival built around the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse sits alongside a busy road leading into Madras, Ore on June 13, 2017,