GENTRY -- Thursday's solar eclipse provided a near-perfect opportunity to view such an event when the sun and moon dropped below the clouds just before sunset.
The partial eclipse with the sun low in the sky made it possible to photograph the event with a minumum of precautions and allowing photographs to reveal, not only the eclipse, but sunspots.
Though there are usually two and sometimes more solar eclipses each year, it is a much more rare occurence to have them visible in northwest Arkansas. The April 29 eclipse was only visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
The next solar eclipse to be visible in North America will be on Aug. 21, 2017, and it is a total eclipse. After that, people in North America will have to wait until 2021 and 2023 to see an annular eclipse, with the next total eclipse visible in North America on April 8 of 2024.
General News on 10/29/2014