The thrill of a final, 4,000 kilometers of travel and a rooster: the total eclipse in Mexico in three scenes

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The thrill of a final, 4,000 kilometers of travel and a rooster: the total eclipse in Mexico in three scenes

The four minutes and 10 seconds of the total eclipse in Torreón (Coahuila) were lived with the emotion of one of those epoch-making soccer finals: cheers, applause, tears of joy and an emotion that was being felt in the environment as the stopwatch progressed and the moon obscured the solar disc. “Astronomy is a science of patience,” warns Christian Terán, the coordinator of the Colombian Astronomy Olympiad, as he counts down at the Planetarium …