Eclipse Party!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Did anyone in the right regions get to see the solar eclipse today? I thought I wasn't going to because paradoxically I was stuck in the Space Place Dome Theater for a shift,* but nobody showed up for one of the shows because THERE WAS AN ECLIPSE GOING so I had time to run out and hang with the Space Place Eclipse Party for a bit and look through the filtered telescopes and through the filtered glasses and DEAR GOD PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT A FILTER PEOPLE.

So yeah, we partied like Space Place people, by which I mean a bunch of nerds stood around and tried to see who could explain space the loudest while peering through telescopes. And now I've got mylar-filtered glasses so I can check out the sun with impunity WHENEVER I DAMN WELL PLEASE and every time I'll feel a little bit defiant. TAKE THAT, THE SUN!

Then I had to go back to Dome Jail. But it was clouding up anyway, so that was fine. I'm just glad I got to see it.


*I suppose on the plus side I could always simulate the eclipse ...

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I dismissed my students a bit early and went to the astronomy club's set up. We had a few small telescopes, some eclipse glasses, and a Sunspotter*. I also noticed the thing where the trees are making little Cs in their shadows because they are acting like pinhole cameras.

* Which I now want. Along with a bigger telescope, like, in general.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

We had clouds that were just enough to stop the pinhole technique from working! Where do you get Mylar glasses?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

You can probably find cheap ones at any planetarium for the next eclipse. You can also search for "eclipse glasses" online!

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

It was so cloudy and rainy here we couldn't even see where the sun was in the sky. Very irritating!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Aw, darn!

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

Sadly I was on the wrong side of the Earth to see this :( I would have loved to witness it, but somehow the most interesting space things are rarely visible over here.