How to watch total solar eclipse on April 8 without traveling: here are a few ways
Although the Greater Gardner area is not on the path of the totality for the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, there are ways to watch it from home, and no need to find a pair of solar eclipse glasses.
A partial solar eclipse is visible from the Gardner area, and the city is only 190 miles away from the totality path in Burlington, Vermont, and Lancaster, New Hampshire.
Greater Gardner residents will see a partial eclipse when the total solar eclipse peaks on Monday at 3:28 p.m. Residents from the six municipalities in the Greater Gardner area can expect the particle eclipse to start at 2:14 p.m. and end at 4:38 p.m. with a magnitude between 94% and 95%.
A community watch party hosted by the Levi Heywood Memorial Library staff will be held on the library lawn from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The library staff will hand out certified solar eclipse viewing glasses at the event until supplies last.
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Where to livestream it?
NASA plans to offer two livestreams of the solar eclipse for free on YouTube and its streaming platform NASA+. One of the livestreams on NASA+ is the live feed of the eclipse through the organization's telescope. Both begin to stream at 1 p.m. Eastern time. NASA+ is available to download for both iOS and Android devices.
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the organization's National Solar Observatory will also livestream for free the total solar eclipse on their YouTube page on Monday at 1:55 p.m.
A group of students at the University of Maine plan to livestream the total solar eclipse from the stratosphere. The group will launch a camera tied to a giant balloon 90,000 feet in the air. This student-run livestream is available on YouTube.
Where to watch it on broadcast TV?
ABC Network plans to air the total solar eclipse on Monday at 2 p.m. on several different platforms. People can see a live TV broadcast on the ABC News and National Geographic Channels. Or stream it live from the National Geographic streaming platform Nat Geo WILD. People can also access the live broadcast of the total solar eclipse from the subscription-based streaming services Disney+ and Hulu.
CNN has several ways for people to watch the total solar eclipse from their TV. The daytime news programs, CNN News Central and CNN International, both will broadcast the solar eclipse on Monday live on TV.
The news network also has two ways to live stream the total solar eclipse: through the subscription-based streaming services CNN+ and CNN on Max. The network will also broadcast the solar eclipse live on their CNN Spanish-language news channel.
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