Eclipses

If you enjoy pretty sky events, you might want to save a date in September as a double sky event will be visible over Illinois all year will happen then - with one caveat.

I wish I had been there so I could have waved at it when it drove by. There's photographic evidence that the Google car was in Missouri during the great total solar eclipse of 2017 and that evidence comes from Google itself.

While most of America is looking forward to the historic total solar eclipse that will cross the country in April of 2024, there's another one in October of 2023 that should be at least partially visible in both Quincy and Hannibal. Maybe.

If you enjoy spectacular sky events, get ready for the middle of May in the tri-state area as there will definitely be a lunar eclipse we'll be able to see and we might get a cool meteor shower, too.