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Friday, May 25, 2012

Eclipse

Last Sunday we had the privilege of witnessing a rare annular eclipse of the Sun. The best spot to watch this was Kanarraville in southern Utah. Instead of doing the long drive we went to Weber State University where they had some telescopes available to the public to watch this rare celestial wonder. They ran out of the special glasses but the telescope was more than enough for us. Daniel was able to take an awesome picture and he was lucky because he aimed at it just right since he was not looking directly at the camera or the Sun. From our position, I believe, the Sun was covered at an 88%. Pretty cool!

Crowd gathered to get a glimpse of the Eclipse




Darren and other kids climbing up and down the hill at the University's Planetarium





 Since we didn't have glasses, they gave us some paper to try to project the image unto it (one of the pieces had a tiny hole on it)

Dan's awesome photo!



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