GENTRY -- Students at Gentry Public Schools donned special eyewear and viewed the partial eclipse on Monday, April 8. Some celebrated the event with an eclipse party.
The skies began to darken shortly after 12:30 p.m. on April 8, and students watched as the full sun was reduced to a sliver behind the moon as it passed between the earth and the sun a few minutes before 2 p.m.
The total eclipse could be seen further south and east in Arkansas, but the partial eclipse visible in Gentry was a unique event as well.
While a total lunar eclipse will be visible across the region in March 2025, the next total solar eclipse will be 21 years away in August 2045.
Submitted photo/Gentry School District
Students at Gentry Intermediate School donned eclipse glasses to watch the partial eclipse on April 8 in Gentry.
The moon partially eclipses the sun during the partial eclipse on April 8 in Gentry.
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Only a sliver of the sun could be seen behind the moon during the height of the eclipse on Monday, April 8, in Gentry.