Condo vs. Townhouse. A condominium, or condo, is a type of housing wherein a very specific part of a larger property â almost always an apartment within a complex â is privately owned by the homeowner, while all other connecting areas of the complex are communally owned by all condo residents.
This year is my chance â and yours. The eclipse path is 60 miles wide. You need to be inside that band to see totality â towards the middle gives a longer eclipse. More details are at the end of this post.
Eclipses occur due to the special coincidence of the moon and the Sun being the same angular size. The Sun is 400 times wider than the moon, but it is also 400 times farther away, so they coincidentally appear to be the same size in our sky. This is what allows us the phenomenal beauty of the total solar eclipse.