Turn around, bright eyes — on the afternoon of Oct. 14, because Georgians will have a chance to see a solar eclipse.
From 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the peak viewing around 1:15 p.m., the state will see the moon pass in front of the sun.
“This particular eclipse is kind of a hybrid because the moon is just a little bit further away than it needs to be,” said astronomer David Dundee of the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville. “So the moon is a little bit smaller than it should be.”
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