Radio Iowa You are here: Home Look! Up in the sky! It’s a partial solar eclipse! Partial solar eclipse (NASA photo) If the skies are clear, a partial solar eclipse will be visible over Iowa tomorrow morning. The moon is at its farthest point from the earth so it’s an “annular” eclipse as it won’t completely cover the sun. Linda Burkhart, director of the Sanford Museum and Planetarium in Cherokee, says other parts of the country will have a better view but it’ll still be interesting to see. “What people in Iowa are seeing is called a partial eclipse, only a bite of the sun will disappear for us,” Burkhart says. “If you live west of Des Moines, that bite gets smaller and smaller and smaller and where we are, sunrise will be at 5:40 and the partial eclipse that we are able to see ends at 5:45.”