People in Christian county seem to be quite lucky as two years from now on August 21, 2017 they will be able to witness a total solar eclipse. This rare event happens when the moon passes between the earth and the sun.

The event will happen for the first time in nearly four decades, when Americans get a chance to see a total solar eclipse in their backyards. As per experts, it is a point of greatest totality, or point of longest eclipse, which will happen about 100 yards north of the intersection of Kentucky 624 and Stone Quarry Road northwest of Hopkinsville.

On the event known as the Great American Eclipse, earth’s moon will completely cover the sun from Oregon to South Carolina. As per the experts, Americans from all across the country will be able to see the spectacle.

Contrary to the famous belief, total solar eclipses are not particularly rare. Astronomers predict that a total of 68 solar eclipses would take place during the present century, occurring about every 17.6 months.

As per experts’ calculation, on average, a total solar eclipse of the sun is visible from the same spot on earth only once in about every 375 years.

In recent few years, for instance, assiduous eclipse chasers had to travel to remote locations such as Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada (2008), Easter Island (2010) or the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard (2015).

But August 21, 2017, will mark the first time this century, and the first time since 1979, that a total solar eclipse will cross the contiguous (lower 48) United States (Alaska had its turn in 1990; Hawaii in 1991).