It’s an event 99 years in the making.
The Great American Eclipse, the first total solar eclipse in the United States since 1979, will occur Monday, Aug. 21.
But, more significantly, it is the first total solar eclipse visible across the entire contiguous U.S. since 1918.
The eclipse’s path of totality – in which the moon completely covers the sun and the sun’s corona can be seen – will arc from Salem, Ore., to Charleston, S.C.
Chattanooga is just south of the path of totality. The eclipse will begin here about 1:02 p.m. with 99.55 percent of the light being obscured at 2:32 p.m. The phenomenon will end about 3:58 p.m.