Students and faculty experience the total solar eclipse

Makenna Miller, Sidebar Editor|September 12, 2017

Photos by Makenna Miller, Pendleton Bright, Coral Maxey of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 of the moon and sun line up and a dog wearing the special eclipses glasses from NASA.

Photos by Makenna Miller, Pendleton Bright, Coral Maxey of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 of the moon and sun line up and a dog wearing the special eclipses glasses from NASA.

On August 21,  students and faculty experienced the total solar eclipse that has not happened since February 26, 1979.

Sophomore Abbey Hicks was at space camp in Huntsville, Alabama, when she witnessed the eclipse.

“Being in Huntsville, there was 97% totality. All wildlife around us thought it was night time,” said Abbey.

Astronomy teacher Michelle Bailey-Hennessey went down to the Columbia, South Carolina with her daughter. She used her telescope in order to see the eclipse better, and she ended up having a line for the telescope.

“It was amazing,” said Bailey-Hennessey, “it was everything I ever wanted and more.”

“I told my kids that it’s about as bright as two times the full moon,” said Bailey-Hennessey. “That’s what I was told and that’s what I read. It wasn’t quite as dark as I thought, but I could see brilliant Venus, and it was so pretty.”