Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amid all the partying along the 100-mile-wide umbra of total darkness stretching from Mexico toward Florida and northward to Nantucket Island, the jammed hotels and motels included serious amateur scientists carrying altered telescopes and cameras to view or record the historic event without damage to eye or lens. The professionals took to high-altitude aircraft and isolated mountaintops to aim their instruments to best advantage. Out of Wallops Island, Va., NASA fired rockets rather than arrows into the heavens, seeking more precise knowledge of the phenomenon...
Canoeists who attempted to paddle to Monomy Island off Cape Cod for a 45-second glance at totality were foiled by a heavy current. But thousands of eclipse watchers flocked to Nantucket where totality lasted more than two minutes...
...Nantucket Memorial Airport nearly doubled its previous record for air traffic. The control tower there reported 1416 airplane arrivals and departures on Saturday including two runs by 727 jets. By 8 a.m., 2000 people had lined up for the Woods Hole ferry...
...darkness engulfed Nantucket, sparrows and ospreys began to roost, and Venus and some stars became visible. In the island's interior, the heavy wind suddenly died out, and when the moon obscured the sun's disc, the entire island erupted in a spontaneous gasp as clusters of eclipse watchers reacted simultancously...
...total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It occurs only once every 360 years at any one place on the earth's surface, and the eastern U. S. can't expect another one in this century. "So we recommend that any one within comminuting distance of Nantucket or Norfolk. Virginia, make it," Pasachoff said, in a burst of enthusiasm that is typical of the spacemen who populate Observatory Hill. "Don't settle for 98 per cent...