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Capturing The 2024 Solar Eclipse at Gannon’s McConnell Stadium

Kiley Williams, Photojournalist

April 11, 2024

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Students taking advantage of the eclipse glasses provided by Gannon, watching the moon slowly pass over the sun’s warm rays without damaging their eyesight.

April 11, 2024/Midnight

Students, faculty, and the public lounging on the turf of McConnell Family Stadium, opened to view a rare total solar eclipse that will pass over all of Erie. (Kiley Williams)

Worries of cloudy skies during the eclipse begin to dissipate as the cloud cover starts to clear up when the moon makes first contact with the sun around 2pm. (Kiley Williams)

Gannon’s Science department provided telescopes to watch the eclipse and commentary by Physics Professor Dr. Horne. (Kiley Williams)

Students taking advantage of the eclipse glasses provided by Gannon, watching the moon slowly pass over the sun’s warm rays without damaging their eyesight. (Kiley Williams)

The sky begins to darken, and temperatures start to drop while mere minutes away from totality. (Kiley Williams)

The sounds of awe and cheers fill the stadium as the sun is completely engulfed by the moon’s path starting at 3:16pm. Only at this time of the eclipse, the sun is able to be looked at without eye protection. (Kiley Williams)

360° sunset lines the horizon caused by the light of areas that are outside of the eclipse’s totality. Temperatures are significantly colder, and birds frantically fly in the sky as it becomes nighttime in mid-afternoon for 4 minutes. (Kiley Williams)

A close of the moon’s silhouette that is backlit with the bright corona (Outer atmosphere) of the sun. A red spot on the bottom of the sun is made visible by the naked eye, it is an intense burst of radiation near a sunspot called a solar flare.

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Kiley Williams

Kiley Williams, Photographer

Kiley Williams is this academic years Photographer for The Gannon Knight. Kiley is a junior biology major from St. Mary’s PA. A fun fact about Kiley is that she can drive a forklift.

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