~75% totality, so I just used a colander and a grater to look for the crescent shape of the sun from the shadow on the ground. It was noticeably darker outside in San Jose though.
~75% totality, so I just used a colander and a grater to look for the crescent shape of the sun from the shadow on the ground. It was noticeably darker outside in San Jose though.
My cereal box viewer was a bust. I suspect I made the hole in the foil too big, but NASA said it didn't have to be pinhole, that you could experiment.
It was about 80% where I live but nothing much happened. It got slightly overcast, and the birds got frenetic for a few minutes but that was it.
Unfortunately I couldn't participate in the watching even with proper glasses. I'm blind in my left eye and my ophthalmologist would have probably yelled at me if she found out I looked at the eclipse even with glasses. She yells at me if I forget to wear my glasses. So yeah, not worth the risk nor the chew out at my next apt.
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Not that this picture is any good, but this is how I viewed the eclipse last week. Yep, I went low tech with a colander/strainer's shadow.
Oh wow, that's pretty neat. Thanks, Rudie!
I saw beautiful crescent shapes in the shade of a mahogany tree. That redeemed the frustrating experience with the cereal-box viewer.
That's pretty cool, RCF! Thanks for sharing!
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Well done Rudie!! It was cloudy here. We would only have gotten a partial eclipse anyway. I remember seeing one in Galway about 2 years ago early in the morning and also the one in 1999 at lunchtime
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