Today the moon crossed paths with the sun.
It's an annular solar eclipse.
In it, the moon is far enough from the sun that it never totally blots it out, hence causing what is called the Ring of Fire.
I thought you would like to see my photographs of it.
Yes, I did take that photo.
But it's of my television screen as the total annularity was shown from San Antonio, Texas, where scores of people had gathered at the Alamo to see the event.
Here in Arizona, we were a little ways off of the direct path so we never saw the total ring of the sun around the moon.
But, and I am amazed, I found that I did get a couple of photos of what we did see with my Android smartphone camera.
And here they are.
Nothing spectacular but at least you get the idea.
And, by the way, I didn't have any of those special glasses so I never looked directly at the sun.
How was it where you live?
TC-Cambria: Nice photos. We looked through a pin hole projected onto an index card. Our grand daughter was into it big time and watched it through the entire progression. You can understand how people who were not exposed to science or astronomical knowledge, or who simply lacked the advantage of modern education must have been influenced and even frightened by it. Imagine the poor people under the influence of the Shaman of Mar a-Lago.
ReplyDeleteHome Depot was selling the glasses for $1.25. The store was like a sci-fi convention.
ReplyDeleteCloudy
ReplyDeleteIn Portland it was cloudy, per usual, I tried to notice a darkening of the sky, but it was pretty grey and dismal as it was.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your photos of the eclipse. I was out walking when it happened and had completely forgotten about it. A neighbor was out looking at the sky with sunglasses on and said, "Want to take a look?" He handed me his sunglasses and oh wow, what a great surprise that was. I saw the eclipse!
ReplyDeleteWe didn't go outside because we don't have the special glasses. We were aware of it because it's a sunny day and we noticed the darkening when we looked out the window. Thanks for the pictures.
ReplyDeleteDamn , I forgot about it and missed it.
ReplyDeleteI completely forgot it was happening and probably couldn't have seen it from Australia anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhen we had one in Wales about twenty years ago, I used a pinhole camera effect...hole in a piece of cardboard held horizontally over a paving slab...which projected the image of the eclipse onto the slab.
ReplyDeleteIt is an impressive occurrence. No wonder the birds and animals all go silent..and the wind dropped as well.
Here in Merry Olde England we saw nothing. The word "annular" is interesting. It means ring-shaped or forming a ring. Thanks for sharing your pictures.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen an annular eclipse like that. I am not sure what was seen around here. It wasn't promoted around here, so I don't know.
ReplyDeleteCloudy and rainy all day here so never saw it. Thanks for your pics!
ReplyDeleteSadly, it was too over cast. I saw nothing. But I did think of you out there in the west and wondered if you'd post on it. Glad you did.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you got to see even a fraction of it! We got nuthin' here in the UK.
ReplyDeleteI didn't hear about it until after the fact.
ReplyDeleteJohn had about 30 of those glasses and we saw it beautifully from Northern NV. Would I have taken such a long road trip to do so? No, but with John it was fun. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought YOU were the science teacher! 😏
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