
Watching the Day Go (Mostly) Dark


The eclipse reached around 75% of totality at its peak in Durham. For those who didn’t have eclipse glasses, watching the crescents on the ground gave an outstanding account of the event.
The Duke community gathered across the campus, but most prominently in Duke Gardens, on several West Campus Quads and along the Bryan Center Plaza, where a student group known as Stargazing Devils Astronomy Club held an eclipse celebration.
Photos and video by Jared Lazarus and Bryan Reklis, University Communications and Marketing


PICTURING TOTALITY ...
Many employees and students became “eclipse tourists” and headed to Ohio and other states to experience a total solar eclipse. It won’t happen again in the United States for 20 years. Right is a photo taken in Ohio of the total eclipse by sophomore Jake Wolfram, vice president of the Stargazing Devils Astronomy Club. Below, a photo from Silver Creek, N.Y., by Bill Snead of University Communications and Marketing.

