On Sunday, May 20th, we got to see a rather rare event — an annular eclipse. An annular eclipse happens when the moon, which looks just a little bit smaller than the sun, passes in front of the sun causing an
annulus or ring (
cue Johnny Cash.) This year, the annular eclipse covered a little over 90% of the sun! It was pretty neat!
Aaron and I took a break from our busy weekend of garage sale haggling, classroom moving, and house packing to watch this super-cool natural phenomenon. Someone (
it couldn't possibly have been me!) forgot to charge the camera, so all of these photos are compliments of my hubby, who took the photos with his camera phone.
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I created an eclipse watcher by poking several nail holes into a file folder.
Can you see all the little baby crescent moon sun shapes?!? |
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The eclipse -- as seen through the leaves of the tree! |
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My awesome attempt at being able to see the sun. Four pair of sunglasses! |
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Another photo courtesy of the leaves. |
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The sun's eclipse shadowed on our Pretty Little Turlock House...
.. a great way to spend the last Sunday in our pretty little home. |
If you missed it, don't worry — just mark your calendars for the "hybrid eclipse" to take place in
November of 2013. And book your plane ticket to Africa to see it. :) But if you want to see from the comfort of your North American home, you will have to wait until the partial eclipse on October 23, 2014.
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