Melody Benchley, 13 of Hooper, Utah looks up at the eclipse through a disk of obsidian. Her family got the disks while traveling in South America. They were told that obsidian is what the ancient Aztecs used to view eclipses.(Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)
August 26, 2017
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August 26, 2017 8:11 p.m.
Total perfection: Chasing solar eclipse totality
For those lucky enough to have clear weather on Monday, Aug. 21, the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse gave sky watchers around two minutes of undiluted perfection. While the direct shadow of the moon did cross a small patch of Montana, those who wanted to see the real power of a total eclipse of the sun had to travel to get to it. And many Montanans chose to do just that.