~ Tim Effertz

Like people all over the country, North Shore Bank employees took a few minutes to check out the solar eclipse that tracked across the U.S. on Monday. It was worth it to take the time as it will be 20 years before another eclipse crosses the country! The region covered by our bank branches saw a partial eclipse in the range of 80% to 95% of totality depending on location.

Tim Effertz, VP, Product & Implementation Manager, set up a telescope outside the corporate office in Brookfield. Employees were able to take a peek through the telescope to see the eclipse up close. Tim got a few captivating shots of the event through his telescope with his cell phone. Very cool!

A few fun eclipse facts:

• The path of totality stretched for 2,500 miles, from Mexico’s Pacific coast through Texas and across 14 other states into Canada.
• The period of totality lasted up to 4 1/2 minutes, depending on the viewer’s location. This exceeded the duration of the 2017 eclipse, which clocked in at under 3 minutes.
• 32 million people live within the path of totality, and it was estimated that another 5 million people traveled to be in the path.
• It took about 80 minutes from the moment the moon began to cover the sun to totality, and then another 80 minutes to complete the process in reverse.

~ Tim Effertz