[hanamizu]

CBS News just said C’Dale only had 10 seconds of totality.

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I think they got clouded out. Happened to us in Hawaii in ‘91. It got dark, but the show is corona with the black moon in the middle and if it’s cloudy all you get is a couple of minutes of dark. Here in Cape Girardeau we had no clouds and got to enjoy 2 minutes 7 seconds of totality.

[Paul R.]

Ah, you are correct — several reports say the view from Saluki Stadium was partially obscured for all but 10-15 seconds. “Translucent”, one might say. So they got their 2:40 or so of totality, but not as much of the dramatic view I got for a little over 2 minutes, with the corona clearly visible, some planets visible (Venus was quite bright), etc.

I feel a bit bad that the biggest gathering in the Southern IL area had, apparently, some of the poorest viewing, but, I’m not going to trade!