{"id":24691,"date":"2017-08-25T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24691"},"modified":"2017-08-25T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:09:31","slug":"crowds-cheer-total-solar-eclipse-above-austin-peay-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/08\/25\/crowds-cheer-total-solar-eclipse-above-austin-peay-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds cheer total solar eclipse above Austin Peay State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Around 1:25pm on Monday, August 21st, 2017, hundreds of people cheered in the near-dark inside Austin Peay State University\u2019s Fortera Stadium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390581\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390581\" class=\"wp-image-390581 size-medium\" title=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-1-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-390581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At that moment, the moon passed over the sun during a total solar eclipse, and people from as far away as France and Finland came to the APSU campus to experience the celestial event.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s Clarksville campus was situated near the epicenter of this historic event, meaning the sky went dark for more than two minutes\u2014one of the longest periods of darkness in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an institution of higher learning, we couldn\u2019t let this opportunity to educate and enrich the public slip away, and for the last several years, Austin Peay\u2019s faculty and staff have prepared for this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence,\u201d Dr. Alisa White, APSU president, said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390582\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390582\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-390582\" title=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-2-480x338.jpg\" alt=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"338\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-390582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University was named an official NASA event, with the national organization sending scientists and a film crew to the University\u2019s farm. The images they captured were broadcast across the world, including on a large digital screen in New York City\u2019s Times Square.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390583\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-3.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-390583\" title=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Hunter Abrams, Photographer)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-3-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Hunter Abrams, Photographer)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-390583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APSU hosts Peayclipse, an event for the community to gather and witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse at Fortera Stadium on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Hunter Abrams, Photographer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University also hosted a viewing party at Fortera Stadium, an educational fair for children and a lecture by Dr. Rhea Seddon, a former NASA astronaut.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_390584\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-4.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390584\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-390584\" title=\"Dr. Rhea Seddon, retired NASA astronaut, signs her book for fans at the Dunn Center on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APSU\u2019s-Fortera-Stadium-hosts-hundreds-for-the-Total-Solar-Eclipse-4-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Rhea Seddon, retired NASA astronaut, signs her book for fans at the Dunn Center on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-390584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rhea Seddon, retired NASA astronaut, signs her book for fans at the Dunn Center on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (Taylor Slifko, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Around 1:25pm on Monday, August 21st, 2017, hundreds of people cheered in the near-dark inside Austin Peay State University\u2019s Fortera Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[22711,23,438,5082,28164,11642,30519,262,825,8154,2406,11328,9023,30518,26536,30788,30474],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24692,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions\/24692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}