Did any of you see the solar eclipse last week?
There was an astronomy festival held at BYU over the weekend and they were giving out eclipse glasses so we went and picked some up so that we could watch the eclipse.
These are some sweet solar shades as modeled by these funky dudes.
The shades worked great and it was really cool to see the sun covered by the moon. We began watching around 6:30 pm and could see a small bite out the sun. Then after about an hour, the moon covered most of the sun--80% coverage was what I read that it was for our area, but it looked more like 90%, to me. We didn't see the full "ring of fire" but it was pretty close. Some thin clouds were covering the sky at the end, but we could still see the eclipse through them.
It was an amazing sight!
