Eclipse 2024

 I got myself ready in March!   There won't be another until 2044. Monday morning I was prepared.

I practiced before noon. It was perfect!

We were close to the full eclipse in Perth.

 

Look at the clouds rolling in!

This is as good as it got.

Solar Eclipse from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Yes, clouds rolled in. None of my sieves worked. 

 

It got really dark during the near eclipse. It looked as if it could rain.

I hope you aren't tired of the eclipse... I thought about the Crumbly Acres camera, and it shows a bit of our drama. The camera thought it was getting dark and clicked in to night mode! 

eclipse from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

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Happily, the kids rented a vehicle and drove to Quebec: Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (2-hour drive). They didn't want to risk using their EV and running out of a charge. All the rental agency had left was a RAM 1500!

Aster took an amazing photo with an appropriate lens cover. It was epic!

They took a video, sped up for time. I can live vicariously! I'm so glad they shared it with us. Maybe we should subsidize their trip costs!!!

April 8th eclipse – are you ready?!

I am planning ahead. 🌞 I'm having fun watching the discussions around the April 8th eclipse. Some boards have moved a PD day to April,  so kids aren't in school. I think they just don't want the responsibility if something happens. It'll actually happen here in Ontario when a lot of kids would be on busses or walking home. It should hit here at 3:20 p.m. and I wonder about the efficacy of having kids at home. What do you think? 

I did some research!

Book of Optics: by Muslim Physicist Hasan Alhazen (Wiki)

The camera obscura was known to the ancient Chinese, and was described by the Han Chinese polymath Shen Kuo, published in the year 1088 Common Era. Aristotle had discussed the basic principle behind it in his Problems, but Alhazen's work contained the first clear description of camera obscura.^[87] and early analysis^[88] of the device.

Ibn al-Haytham used a camera obscura mainly to observe a partial solar eclipse.^[89] In his essay, Ibn al-Haytham writes that he observed the sickle-like shape of the sun at the time of an eclipse. 

 

It is interesting. In Ontario, it wasn't obvious how much we would be affected. I thought I'd look it up. Here is a look at us in southeastern Ontario. You can even narrow it down to the Ottawa area. 

We are on the fringe of the viewing area. 'Perth,' although we don't live in town!

 

I tried to order viewing glasses, but a pack of 4 was about $12, + $13 shipping! I know there is lots of information out there about how to make a camera obscura!

There was a Partial eclipse in 2017 (📹Eclipse), and I tried a couple of things. A shoe box, and my sieve! 

One little moonsickle!

 I have a cereal box, and a small box set aside. 

Basically you want a way to have the sun at your back, and to be able to see the end of the box. Here is my equipment for 2024. A piece of foil and a pin hole in that. I shall work on this.

I saw another reference online where someone filmed the eclipse inside the box. I am going to try and figure something out! 

From 2017:

Eclipse 2017 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.