From Oregon to South Carolina it will be a total eclipse, but here in the twin tiers around 80 percent of the sun will be blocked out by the moon. The eclipse start around 1pm and be peak at 2:35pm and end around 3pm our time. It will be the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast-to-coast across the US in 99 years. The deepest part of the shadow, or umbra, cast by the moon will fall over a 70-mile-wide, 2,500-mile-long ‘path of totality’ in 14 states. You need special sunglasses to observe the eclipse.