Eclipse gives Viz students insight into women and the sciences

Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org

The solar eclipse, picture here at near totality from the Poor Clares Monastery in south St. Louis County, was the first visible from the St.  Louis area in about 575 years.

At the initial moment of totality Aug. 21, excitement quickly spread among Visitation Academy students gathered on Ritter Field as they observed the rare solar eclipse.

They whooped and hollered to celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime event. And they continued for the next minute and a half of the celestial light show ... well, the non-light show. Only the sun's corona was visible as the moon blotted out the rest, a black ball inside a pulsating circle of light.

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