For you Astronomy buffs, besure to view the solar eclipse happening tomorrow starting at 5:13pm until 7:30pm. It will be a 71% solar eclipse. CAUTION: besure to use extreme caution when viewing areas near the sun, use proper eye protection (welding mask are acceptable).

 

Was pretty cool. We had my dads old survey instrument setup out back, and a piece of paper to check it out on. Crudely drawn circles with shaky hands at the 'height' of the eclipse, came up with 73% obscured. Pretty close, eh?

 

Hey, that's neat. How'd you figure it (curious)? I did the same thing, I used my telescopes to view the eclipse. Use a big white box to reflect off of, then used a big trash can for shade (easier to view). Did you guys see the array of sun spots?

 

Stupid moon getting in the way of our california sun.
I pay California taxes, can't we do something about this abnoxiouse moon thing getting in our way every 10 years or so.

sheeeesh

 

Drew the crest by hand, used a circle template to draw circles as close as I could get (hey, its not rocket science with a hand drawing ) and then I used those circle radiuses to throw into autocad. With autocad as you probably know, areas are simple to calculate.

Didnt see sunspots. They must have been hidden or we didnt have it on a big enough piece of paper

 

Never though of that, hand drawn circles and autocad. Yeah, A large sheet would have exposed the spots, I used a 12x24 sheet and the sun was 6-8 inches in diameter. Dwayne, interesting that you mention that, I too thought the moon passed over the sun, but it is the sun trying to hide behind the moon. You know needing a break.