On Thursday, the Milwaukee Public Museum, after its supply of eclipse glasses sold out, issued tricks to observe the eclipse including making a tiny hole in a piece of white paper and holding it up to another bright flat surface while standing with your back to the sun. Printed with thermochromic ink, the stamp reveals a second image of the moon when a finger is pressed to it, and a sheet of 16 Forever stamps features a map of the eclipse path. Postal Service has gotten into the act, issuing a first-of-its-kind stamp featuring a picture of a total solar eclipse. RELATED: Solar eclipse offers moon-walk moment: Science is all the rageĮclipse glasses are selling like hotcakes, a one-day eclipse-viewing Amtrak train from Chicago to Carbondale, Ill., sold out in less than 24 hours and even the U.S. RELATED: UWM says distributed solar eclipse glasses are unsafe RELATED: Astrologers warn the solar eclipse could seriously impact Trump, USA But if you can't leave and want to see the eclipse, there are plenty of viewing events in the Milwaukee area.Īs the shadow caused by the moon passing in front of the sun races at upward of 2,400 mph across the U.S., millions are expected to clog the 70-mile-wide path of totality, prompting warnings of shortages of gasoline and food in small communities that will be overwhelmed by visitors and porta-potties. Some cheeseheads are leaving the state and driving somewhere along the eclipse route stretching from Oregon to South Carolina. Yes, it's a bummer Wisconsin won't be in the path of totality of Monday's Great American Eclipse and the sky won't turn dark here in the middle of the day.
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