HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - As crowds continue to grow in Hopkinsville ahead of Monday's total solar eclipse, NASA scientists are setting up at one of the area's prime view spots.
With less than 24 hours until the eclipse, scientists are testing out their equipment at Orchardale farm.
The team has brought telescopes and other viewing devices that will track the sun as the moon passes directly over it in the sky.
The study will hopefully help researchers learn more about the sun and its corona, the outermost layer of the star's atmosphere, which will be visible during totality.
"So we are here both to just experience it and take it all in and also to film it with the telescopes so that we can broadcast it as part of NASA's streaming program," Dr. Renee Weber, a planetary scientist said.
The team's setup at Orchardale farm is both in the area of totality, as well as specifically in the path of greatest eclipse. Giving viewers the perfect conditions to see the total solar eclipse.
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