Buffalo saw a 32.1% year-over-year increase in spending at hotels and restaurants in the four days leading up to, and including, Monday’s eclipse.
The team found an alternative to throwing them out.
More than 100 years ago during a total solar eclipse, a University of Rochester graduate changed the way we view the sun.
Nearly 1,000 people visited the Kopernik Observatory in Broome County to glimpse the eclipse on Monday.
They came from far and wide, bearing an enormous telescope and an urge to see the sun blocked by the moon, if only for moments.
Students and faculty at SUNY Oswego undertook the research as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project.
People around the state are taking part in the rare celestial event.
One eclipse seven years ago in Victor, Idaho and Neal Tarver was hooked, but living in Kansas City, he’d have to once again travel to do that.
One Rochester family turned following eclipses into a job.
There will be some mid and upper-level clouds on Monday, but they will be thin.
