Solar Eclipse
Today we had a partial solar eclipse with 79.7% coverage. Not nearly as exiting the total eclipse I watched several years ago. It doesn’t get dark and there are no animals here that can go crazy. The most noticeable effect was a temperature drop of 5°C at the maximum.
I know the picture is not very exiting but I add it for completeness anyway.
Yuki had great fun watching the eclipse through and with all kinds of implements. Shown here is the version with the proper eclipse goggles.
Update: The temperature didn’t drop quite 5°C. It went from -44.5 °C / -48.1 °F down to -47.8 °C / -54.0 °F.
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February 13th, 2008 07:55
I’m scratching my head wondering why you have to have a particular set of goggles to view a lunar eclipse (because I thought that’s what it was by the pic) until I went back and read the post. :)