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2017 Solar Eclipse In Santa Clarita Draws Viewers Of All Ages (VIDEO)
2017 Solar Eclipse In Santa Clarita Draws Viewers Of All Ages (VIDEO)

2017 Solar Eclipse In Santa Clarita Draws Viewers Of All Ages (VIDEO)

The 2017 solar eclipse in Santa Clarita drew residents of all ages outside for events to witness the phenomenon Monday morning.


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While private companies and NASA worked jointly to scramble 14 spacecrafts, more than 50 high altitude balloons and the international coalition of astronauts on board the International Space Station to offer unique vantage points for the celestial event, Santa Clarita parents and students enjoyed the solar occasion from local parks, playgrounds and parking lots.

Among the places that held events, which included the Old Town Newhall Library, Pinetree Community school organized PTA volunteers to help create ocular eclipse devices and ensure that everyone practiced proper safe-viewing techniques.

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“We have a strong presence of PTA members here today to help with the kids, “said Kristie Cooper, office manager at Pinetree Community School. “We made sure the younger ones are not allowed to go outside alone during the time of the eclipse.”

In order to ensure that the young students protected themselves properly, older students were paired with the younger classes by the parent volunteers, and project stations were set up in order to create pinhole projectors and eclipse viewers.

“This is a special day and the kids are really excited about it,” said Carla Monterrosa, a volunteer parent. “We told them that this is something once in their lifetime, and we all just wanted to come out and be apart of it with the kids.”

This eclipse was of particular note not only because all of North America could see some varying degree of it, but that also the last celestial event close to this magnitude for the continent was in 1979, according to NASA.

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“Once you look at it through these glasses, you could see that the sun looks like the moon,” said Aiyana Bernal, a student at Pinetree community school.

Over the course of 100 minutes, 14 states across the United States experienced more than two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day.

And while some parts of the United States were able to view full totality Monday morning, this type of event, with the full eclipse, will not be seen again until 2024, and then, only from parts of Texas and Maine, according to NASA.

View NASA’s coverage and breakdown of the solar eclipse here.

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2017 Solar Eclipse In Santa Clarita Draws Viewers Of All Ages (VIDEO)

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About Caleb Lunetta

Caleb has been a Santa Clarita resident for most of his life. After attending Hart High School, Caleb went on to study political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara along with College of the Canyons.