BATON ROUGE — When the moon passes in front of the sun Monday, its magnitude at Baton Rouge will be about 0.878, meaning that nearly 88 percent of the sun will be blotted out. Monday's eclipse will be similar to the one visible from Baton Rouge on March 7, 1970, and greater than the two most-recent major eclipses visible from the city — 80 percent in August 2017 and again last October. It won't be as great as the eclipse on May 30, 1984, which had 98 percent of the sun... Read this story