/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9110377
Well, first he Earth cooled, and then there were dinosaurs...

But seeing the eclipse was pretty neat. We drove with another family into South Carolina with a 2 1/2 inch refractor telescope that had a solar projection screen, and set up along the path of totality out in the middle of freaking nowhere. We watched the disk of the sun getting blocked out by the moon, and as totality approached and it started to get noticeably dark, the birds started roosting, cows headed for the barn, roosters began to crow...

Seeing the corona blazing around the edges of the moon was amazing, and we saw "Bailey's Beads," where flecks of sunlight shine through passes of mountain ranges along the edge of the lunar disk.

Pictures I took with a small Instamatic camera were disappointing, of course, and just showed a tiny ring in the middle of a black field. I hope to better this time... headed back to SC, as it turns out.