Partial Solar Eclipse, October 23, 2014

There will be a partial solar eclipse, October 23, 2014

Here is an article about the eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse, October 23, 2014

 

A $8 piece of #14 welders glass, and a cardboard box and some glue & you can make your own solar viewer. Yeah.... I'm a nerd...

 

Thanks for the heads up. My 3 year old loves all things outer space and he will get a huge kick out of seeing this!

 

I'll give you $11 for that

 

If it's anything like the lunar eclipse last week, it will be pouring rain wherever I am at the time. :down:

 

Hells yeah!! muffuggin cottage industry up in here!!

On point... enter your city or coordinates here to find the best time to view:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JSEX/JSEX-NA.html

 

Moon should start to occlude the sun in about 3 minutes here. Gnarly sunspot easily visible right now.

 

Too cloudy here also.

 

Damn! That shit is bright! I looked at it through two pairs of sunglasses and the tinted window on my van and I still can't see anything but a giant green dot everwhere I look

 

Dumass!

Holepunch through photopaper and hold that a few feet from a white surface.

Like so:

 

Way too cloudy here.

 

Tried that first, but on to the ground (didn't think about the white surface). Being so late in the day, the angle was too shallow to see it. I really wanted to see the actual eclipse though, not it's shadow.

It's really not so bad. I was able to see what I wanted to see. It's not everyday that you stare into the sun.

 

Crappy cell phone pic. Forgot my real camera - didn't think we'd see anything through the clouds.