It came, we saw, nobody conquered. But that's OK, we all had a good time at Western Nevada College's Jack C. Davis Observatory watching the annular solar eclipse.
We got there about an hour before the maximum, and there were a lot of other people already there, queueing up to peer through the at least six telescopes, and other assorted paraphenalia available to watch the sun and moon play PacMan with each other.
It turned out to be quite the social event with (by my estimation) a couple hundred people milling about and talking. I'm not sure how much the kids that were running around got out of it, but I certainly enjoyed it, as did Mikaela. I think Spencer was more concerned about chatting with his buds than the astronomical spectacle. But what do you truly expect from a soon to be teenager?
We got there about an hour before the maximum, and there were a lot of other people already there, queueing up to peer through the at least six telescopes, and other assorted paraphenalia available to watch the sun and moon play PacMan with each other.
It turned out to be quite the social event with (by my estimation) a couple hundred people milling about and talking. I'm not sure how much the kids that were running around got out of it, but I certainly enjoyed it, as did Mikaela. I think Spencer was more concerned about chatting with his buds than the astronomical spectacle. But what do you truly expect from a soon to be teenager?
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I'm planning to be back at the observatory in a couple of weeks for the Transit of Venus. For some reason, I am not expecting similar crowds for that event as appeared this evening, though the transit is something that won't happen again in our lifetimes. See ya there?
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