LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The University of Louisville plans to offer a class focused on the 2024 total solar eclipse.
The online class for high school students to senior citizens, which closes enrollment on Jan. 12, is worth one college credit and will teach students about how rare the eclipse is and what to expect.
The eclipse over north and central America happens on April 8. The next eclipse will happen in 2044 and 2055 but will be hundreds of miles away.
The next one to be viewable in Louisville will happen Oct. 17, 2153.
"This will be so close to us in Louisville," Gerard Williger, a UofL professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences, who is teaching the class, said in a news release Thursday. "Those who experience a total solar eclipse will remember it forever. It’s completely different from a partial eclipse: The temperature drops, birds go quiet, the wind dies down and a few bright stars and planets become visible."
The eclipse will be partially visible in Louisville, but most of southern Indiana will experience its totality. More than 60,000 people are expected at official viewing locations across Seymour, a city of 21,500 people.
For much of the Louisville and southern Indiana area, the eclipse will start around 1:45 p.m. and will be at its max just after 3 p.m. The city of Seymour launched a new website — SeymourEclipse.com — to help visitors and residents know where to go for the best glimpse possible.
For more information on the class at UofL, click here.
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