Sunday, May 20, 2012

Solar Eclipse

Sunday, May 20, was the second cool astronomical event of the month! There was a solar eclipse, which was conveniently best viewed in Utah!

Ryan and I made an eclipse viewer with aluminum foil and a cereal box. We were pretty excited about how well it worked! We were at Rara & Papa’s for dinner, so we went outside there to use our eclipse viewer. Their next-door neighbors were outside (including their two college student kids), with the eclipse viewers from Clark Planetarium. We had a lot of fun passing around our different ways to view the eclipse.

It was so cool! Here is an article about it from National Geographic, and here is one from Space.com.

Here are a couple of cool pictures from these websites:

As we went back into Rara & Papa’s house, the eclipse was obvious as the sunlight came through the front windows. It created several crescents in the beveled glass. It was beautiful!

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