FYI Solar Eclipse tomorrow

[A1CKot]

Stumbled across some info about a solar eclipse happening tomorrow. Although I will only see the moon eclipse the sun by 67% I will still be out with an eye to the sky.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/15may_sunday/

Click your state and see what you can see.

http://shadowandsubstance.com/

[Chance]

Thanks, will make it a point to see it. Although not sure how dark a number 14 welder's helmet is; required for safe viewing. Being late in the evening maybe it won't be too bright.

[retrofit]

On our way home from stage 7 of the Tour of California we stopped at the Griffith Observatory and picked up a couple of these:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5239/7235233774_885571a3ae_c.jpg

[A1CKot]

I wish I was in a place to see the full eclipse but no mater how much of it you see it is still worth the time. I remember the first time I saw one in elementary school. Very cool stuff.

[dustyrider]

Don't risk damaging those eyes, they're the only ones you've got, it's just about time to get outside!

I've made one of these in a pinch:

[mvrider]

We experienced the partial eclipse in the Bay Area. Below are a couple of images capture from a hastily improvised set-up consisting of a digital SLR camera with no lens, and a sheet of aluminum foil with a hole made by a pin.

Had I thought about it more, I would have enlarged the hole a bit, so that the focused image better matched the size of the camera sensor. But you get the idea.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5RvSfgvTHE0/T7m-2R3_djI/AAAAAAAAB04/FOMT6hbM1Hk/s720/20120520-T2i-9811.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vERQzFdBrFc/T7m-2x-4ufI/AAAAAAAAB1A/P0DDKuDVbIs/s720/20120520-T2i-9815.jpg

[benitosan1972]

It was eerily dark around 6pm today, felt like the end of the world, lol

[onsight512]

pretty cool. we viewed it through a welding helmet.