see a solar eclipse

I read that there was going to be a solar eclipse yesterday. I wasn’t planning on catching it at first. In fact I was in the car on the way back home and was napping for the most part of the drive.

Then somehow I woke up and looked out the window. The sun was out and not far from it was patch of dark clouds. Soon after, the sun was hidden behind it, but since it wasn’t a thick cloud, I could still see bits of the sun peeking through.

And that was when I saw the eclipse. The sun looked like a partially bitten white cookie. It was such an amazing sight. I wasn’t wearing any special glasses, so I was staring directly at it. But since the clouds did a good job of filtering the blinding light, it was quite alright. I did see spots after that, not for long anyway, but it was well worth it! :D

The next total solar eclipse visible in North America will be on August 21, 2017, so start planning people! You can see exactly where it will be visible here

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmap/SEmapNA/TSENorAm2001.gif

Someday I’m going to watch a complete solar eclipse.

july 2009, marshall islands

i’m going to put this on my calendar, then delete it from my 43things.

i saw a lunar eclipse but it turned cloudy. actually, the best thing about it was that there were so many people on facebook at the time and everyone was posting comments and there was so much energy. and people were like “whoa this is 30 earth-diameters away!”

actually i can’t really remember. that might have been 30 earth radii. either way it’s far away.

Well, there is one coming up in like 8 years that is supposed to come right over SC, so maybe…

What a dream…I’ll do it someday

Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 Aug 01
Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 Jul 22
Total Solar Eclipse of 2010 Jul 11

from http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/alert.html

Defo worth seeing to say you’ve done it. Not too impressive tho!