Out astronomer John Mulchaey advises not to miss your one shot to see a total eclipse in Dallas RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com A once-in-a-lifetime event will happen on Monday afternoon, April 8, and we mean that quite literally.
That is when the Great North American Eclipse will happen, and, for Dallas, this will be the first one since 1878. Dallas is the largest city in the solar eclipse’s path of totality.
The next time this will happen will be in 2317. Dr. John Mulchaey has been making the rounds in Dallas. The gay astronomer is the deputy for science of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the director and Crawford H.
Greenewalt chair of the Carnegie Observatories, the Institution’s division for astronomy and astrophysics research. Astronomer John Mulchaey Simply put, he’s kind of an eclipse expert.