With viewing glasses in place, Montini Catholic science students gathered at 2:07 PM on Monday, April 8th, the peak viewing tie in Lombard for viewing the Great North America Eclipse. (Lombard's partial solar eclipse began around 12:51 PM and by 1:33 PM nearly 50% of the sun was covered. By 2:07PM, Lombard was at its maximum solar eclipse coverage of 93.9%.