LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Ohio State Lima continued their lecture series on anything someone might wonder about the total solar eclipse coming up in April.
Thursday night's talk focused on why a total eclipse is so exciting and what sort of things we can expect to see on April 8th. Things will start looking dimmer around 15 minutes before totality and temperatures could also drop by as much as 10 degrees. The next total solar eclipse in Ohio won't be for another 95 years, so scientists will be spending the day trying to get as much data as they can while the Sun is blocked out.
"People will be studying the Sun's corona, potentially looking at the plasma waves that are going through that. Sometimes they will stick cameras on top of very fast aircraft and they will try to fly in that eclipse for as long as possible in order to take as much data as possible. We can also study the interactions between the Sun and the Earth's atmosphere," explained Wayne Schlingman, the director of the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at Ohio State's main campus.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to travel to our region, so experts recommend stocking up on groceries before April 8th to avoid getting stuck in tourist traffic.
