Insiders, enter to win a 25-pack of eclipse glasses before the April 8 solar event over Texas
After a week of meeting KPRC 2 Insiders around town during our Spring Break Solar Blast week, the fun continues with a chance for Insiders to enter to win enough glasses to outfit their family, friends, neighbors, or coworkers!
Insiders, get your eclipse glasses during KPRC 2โฒs Spring Break Solar Blast!
KPRC 2 Insiders can get geared up for the April 8 big solar event during spring break week (March 11 - 15). Our team will be at several popular spring break stops with eclipse glasses on hand. The first 1,000 KPRC 2 Insiders to stop by our tent each day will get two pairs of eclipse glasses.
Solar eclipse glasses: What you need to know about the special glasses if you plan to catch a glimpse
During the annular solar eclipse of 2023, the moon is closest to the earth and the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but the sun is 400 times farther away; because of this, you will get a perfect shadow of the moon going in between us and the sun.
The eclipsed Eclipse
Can you remember the fanfare of the August 2017 Full Solar Eclipse that crossed the country from northwest to southeast? Not since June 8, 1918 had such a celestial event occurred in the United States! We had a partial glimpse here in Houston that Monday afternoon of August 21st as you can see from the cover photo above: three meteorologists walk into an eclipse....below is the โpath of total darknessโ:
Did you see it? Longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years graces the skies of Houston
KPRC 2 is carrying a livestream early Friday morning of the highly-anticipated partial lunar eclipse (the livestream will be right here in this story), but there are plenty of other places to spy the event called a penumbra.