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NASA RELEASES MAP DETAILING LOCAL TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

(Richmond, IN)--NASA on Thursday released a map that gives more details about a once-in-a-lifetime event that’s now just a little more than a year away.  The map shows specifically where and when a total solar eclipse will occur.  The total eclipse area is only about a hundred miles wide, but Richmond is smack-dab in the middle of it.  It will happen on the afternoon of April 8 next year.  Day will turn to night at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon that day.  The last total eclipse of the sun in Richmond happened back in 1806.  If you miss it next year, you’ll have to wait until 2099 for another total eclipse.