In case you're feeling left out

Nothing to do with politics-I just like running photos of an eclipse of the sun.

As usual with total eclipses, we didn't get to enjoy it in the U.S..

But hang in there for 9 more years. On Aug. 21, 2017, we'll have the first total solar eclipse visible from the continental U.S. since 1979.

We'll see it nicely from here, but the location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be in our region - on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky - which is only 4-5 hours away from Huntington.

Start planning your road trips now.

The total solar eclipse is observed at 7:21 pm (1121 GMT) on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 in north of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The total solar eclipse, the first that can be viewed in China in the new century, occured on Friday. (AP)