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UTC faculty and students are headed for Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens, Tenn., considered a perfect spot for watching Monday’s eclipse.<\/p><\/div>\n

As both a physics professor and science guy, Dr. Bob Marlowe is pretty wired about next week\u2019s total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n

The \u201conce-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d and \u201chistorical moment\u201d is so special, in fact, he and Jack Pitkin, operations manager at UTC\u2019s Clarence T. Jones Observatory, are heading to the campus of Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens, Tenn., for the event.<\/p>\n

The school is one of the spots in Tennessee where the eclipse will be 100 percent, meaning the entire sun will be blocked by the moon. Chattanooga, in comparison, is expected to be about 99 percent.<\/p>\n

Any student majoring or minoring physics is invited, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be taking our telescopes, which are small but with good solar filters,\u201d Marlowe says.<\/p>\n

In most parts of Southeast Tennessee, the total eclipse will start about 2:30 p.m. and last about two minutes and 40 seconds. But the moon will start creeping onto the sun from the left a little over an hour prior to that, then creep off the right side in another hour or so.<\/p>\n

For physics students, there won\u2019t be a whole lot of information to be learned from the eclipse, Marlowe says. It\u2019ll just be really cool to see.<\/p>\n

With any luck, the 100 percent eclipse will produce Baily\u2019s beads and a \u201cdiamond ring,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

As the total eclipse dissipates, sunlight will course through the mountains, valleys and canyons of the moon, often creating random dots of light along its edge. The dots are known as Baily\u2019s beads, named after English astronomer Francis Baily, who first made note of them in 1836.<\/p>\n

And sometimes, one of the beads will erupt into a single flash of light and, with the rest of the sun\u2019s corona still peeking around the moon\u2019s edge, it looks like a diamond on a ring.<\/p>\n

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