Eclipse!

[cats4ever]

Today, panicked people have been calling eye doctors because they stared at the sun yesterday without their eclipse glasses.
I guess that Donald wasn't one of them...

[RICHARD]

Today, panicked people have been calling eye doctors because they stared at the sun yesterday without their eclipse glasses.
I guess that Donald wasn't one of them...

Donald who?

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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/photo-woma...opstories.html

As the days go by, I wasn't worried that I missed the eclipse itself.

It was the stories of the people who got to see it that made me smile.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-...-solar-eclipse

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Useless science facts?

The surface of the sun is something like 10,000 degrees, but as the plasma moves away from the sun, It accelerates and the temp goes up to 1,000,000 degrees. Scientist don't know how this happens.....but if we know that, then it's not a mystery anymore?

The sun is 93 million miles away, the moon? About 240,000 (don't quote me on that)....

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Bad pun time....


How does the sun get a haircut?

He 'e - clips' it.

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The next full moon is September 6 at 00:04 hours (12:04 a.m.)


One fun thing to do is - if you never have seen one - is a moon rise.

Go online and see what time it rises in your area and take a few minutes to watch it......no special glasses required....

[kuhio98]

ZERO % sun coverage in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Guess I'll have to plan a road trip for 2024 to experience an eclipse.
Viewing a shooting star is also on my bucket list.

[RICHARD]

ZERO % sun coverage in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Guess I'll have to plan a road trip for 2024 to experience an eclipse.
Viewing a shooting star is also on my bucket list.

Why just settle for one?

https://www.almanac.com/content/meteor-shower-calendar

Let us know!!!

[kuhio98]

Why just settle for one?

https://www.almanac.com/content/meteor-shower-calendar

Let us know!!!

Great info. Where would you recommend the best viewing?
We (in Alaska) have almost total sunlight in the summer, so it's never dark enough to see shooting stars.
Don't know anyone that has seem them in the winter up here. I'm guessing we're "facing" the wrong way in the winter. Or it is just too blasted cold to sit outside and watch and wait.