Israelis watch at a partial solar eclipse in the town of Givatayim near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and will extend across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
KSRO and the Robert Ferguson Observatory in Kenwood will hold solar eclipse-viewing events this Monday. We’ll hold a free public event with solar telescopes and eclipse glasses from eight in the morning to noon Monday at Courthouse Square with Pat Kerrigan broadcasting live, and at the observatory on Adobe Canyon Road in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. In the greater Bay Area, the sun will be about 76 percent obscured by the moon, compared with 85 percent in far northern California. Monday’s total eclipse will be the first one visible from the United States since 1979, and the first time since 1918 a total eclipse has traveled from coast to coast.