Parts of the northern United States see only a shallow bite taken out of the Sun on August 12, from 3 percent in Detroit to 37 percent in Fairbanks — and the same alignment leaves the sky moonless for that night’s Perseid peak

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The eclipse that darkens Iceland and Spain gives American observers a notch out of the Sun, in the morning in Alaska and around midday farther east. The better event arrives after midnight. The post Parts of the northern United States see only a shallow bite taken out of the Sun on August 12, from 3 percent in Detroit to 37 percent in Fairbanks — and the same alignment leaves the sky moonless for that night’s Perseid peak appeared first on Space Daily .