How Big Bear Lake`s solar observatory is contributing to eclipse study
(World News Science)

Most solar telescopes these days are in space. But there is still an active ground-based one perched at the end of a jetty on Big Bear Lake. Astronomers there are excited about today`s eclipse. Chief observer Claude Plymate is so thrilled, he left for Oregon. He`ll be in the town of Mitchell, with a host of amateur astronomers, as the moon completely blocks out the sun in that section of the United States. ......