Cool thread. Wish I saw this earlier. Totally stoked about the solar eclipse. It's the most epic event since New Horizons made it's closest approach to the dwarf planet, Pluto, 14 July 2015. Btw, it will fly-by 2014 MU69 on 31 December 2018.
This will be the 1st solar eclipse to make landfall in the contiguous US since 1257 and the 1st solar eclipse visible here since 1979. The path of the moon and line of totality forms a line from Madras Oregon to Columbia South Carolina. So here, we just get 84% and the eclipse will last from 11:37 to 14:34 cdt, with a midpoint at 13:05. But it's a short trip north to the line of totality. Yeah, I totally want to be there, not here, lol.
The chances of this happening this nearby is about 1 in 370 years.
Always looking up...
