This is Good evening Saluky's. We're coming to you from Triock Auditorium, I've learned to say it.

On the beautiful campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, smack dab in the middle of the

path of totality for the Great American Eclipse!

And that was how we began our live show in front of more than 1,100 men, women and children on the eve of the eclipse.

Over the next more than an hour you'll hear excerpts of that amazing evening

that featured nine very special guests on two different panels.

You'll also hear a live performance

by the Jenny Johnson band of their terrific song written for this cosmic event,

and later we'll have a brief visit with Bruce Betts for this week's What's Up.

The Space Trivia Contest will offer a rubber asteroid.

Let's get right back to SIU Carmondale in the first of those panels.

It focused on the science surrounding the eclipse and the conversation took us to several places

I bet you didn't hear much about in the overwhelming media lead up to August 21st.

First up was Steve Clark.

Steve directs the Helio Physics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.

That puts him in charge of the Space Agency's National Research Program regarding

our son. His program ranges from research grants to exciting missions, like one we'll hear about

that heads for our star next year.

You brought along this beautiful eclipse animation, NASA animation.

Tell us about it as we watch it.

It's getting started right now and I'm afraid you'll have to see it back there.

Okay. So this is simulating what everyone will see on Monday. You can see the moon is between the sun and

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