Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno is gearing up for the big day.

While northern Nevada will not be in the path of totality for Monday's solar eclipse, a partial eclipse will be visible in the region and Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno is gearing up for the big day.

Here in northern Nevada people will be able to see the moon eclipse more than 30% of the sun.

The eclipse will start in northern Nevada at 10:20 a.m. before peaking around 11:19 a.m. and concluding about an hour later.

"All kinds of ways to celebrate the sun and our relation to it as we see the new moon blocking the light of the sun," said Paul McFarlane, Director of the Planetarium. "It will be taking a bite out of it about 35.78% coverage of the sun. We aren't in the path of totality as they are on different parts of the United States in Texas and up to Maine but we still get treated to a very special and spectacular event from right here in our backyard."

The planetarium had over 500 people out front watching last year's annular eclipse.

We saw multiple people picking up their very important protective glasses on Sunday. 

"It's wonderful to get a chance to see something like the eclipse, but we want to make sure that we protect our eyes, one of the most valuable precious resources that we have, and looking at the sun for even a short amount of time without proper protection can cause permanent eye damage," said McFarlane. 

If you don't have protective glasses, there is another option.

You can use a pin hole device, which is like a thick piece of paper with a hole in it.

If you turn your back to the eclipse and let the light shine through the pin hole a few feet from a surface, it will project the eclipse onto that surface to reveal the moon blocking the sun.

As for the timing, this natural phenomenon doesn't happen too often.

"Usually it just disappears from our point of view because it's somewhere between us and the sun. But in this case, that somewhere between us and the sun is going to cast a shadow that we can stand in and experience our relationship to these remarkable spheres and get a little bit deeper sense of our connection with the cosmos," said McFarlane.