Find your favorite solar eclipse angle with AGFC | KLRT [Video]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC News) – When the moon slips between Earth and the sun April 8, six of the nine Arkansas Game and Fish Commission nature centers will be in the path of a total solar eclipse.

“We’ll have 2 minutes, 42 seconds of totality at our site,” Ken Forman, an educator at Fred Berry Crooked Creek Nature Center near Yellville, said. The center in Marion County is almost 15 miles east of the western edge of the totality path.

Draw a line across Arkansas from just southeast of Texarkana to a little west of Blytheville and another from Fort Smith to Bull Shoals Lake. People between those two boundaries, which are 115 miles apart, will experience a total eclipse as the moon’s shadow moves from southwest to northeast.

For an idea of when all this is going on, a partial eclipse will begin at Foreman in southwestern Arkansas at 12:29 p.m.; a total eclipse will begin at 1:45:55 …