Hot off the press: Japan Eclipse
22 Jul 2009 2 Comments
in Japan, Life Tags: damn interesting, Japan, solar eclipse
Well ladies and gents, it’s 11:35AM here on Wednesday morning and the time has passed for the optimal viewing time of the solar eclipse. It’s been cloudy and stormy here for the last few days, and people were expecting to miss this unusual celestial event (the next of which won’t visit Japan for another hundred years) but luckily the clouds were moving fast enough that we could see it clearly! The Japan eclipse is actually the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. There was an electricity in the air today, all the students are running around shouting and leaning out the windows. One of my English club girls brought her own “eclipse kit” with a mirror, punched card (for doing pin-hole viewing) and a tiny square of welder’s glass you could look through and not destroy your eyes. What a fun event! The last time I saw one was in elementary school, and we had a huge welder’s mask to wear while we peered into the sky from the playground. Funny how 16+ years later I’m halfway around the world but still at school ^^;;
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Total Solar Eclipse (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yang Lei). Via The Examiner.com.
Jul 22, 2009 @ 11:27:53
I am so jealous, I have been reading all about it. I hope it was as excellant (cant think of a good word right now) as you thought it might be….Zman sends
Jul 24, 2009 @ 11:58:47
A wonderful sight it is!