Two other students, Sara Dwyer and Rachel Wagner-Kaiser (a Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium exchange with us from Vassar), Bryce and two Williams students, Katie DuPréĪnd Yung Hsien Ng Tam (Caroline), had the main, oscillation experiment under control. On our return to our Tianhuangping mountain hotel, after a two-hour drive that included dramatically challenging highway, we found the instrumental progress in good shape. (I had also been looking forward to some western-style food on this trip to the big city,Īnd last night the Shangri-La Hotel, about a mile from our otherwise fine Jinxi Hotel and also along the beautiful West Lake, had roast beef that I had them carve thickly. My partial-eclipse filters for personal viewing in the forms of cards with inserts, since then people don’t mistakenly wear them all the time.Īs always, the event was followed by a lavish banquet for about a dozen of us, including my wife, Naomi, Charles and Dr.
#Solar eclipse maestro mirror lock up full
A major point of the eclipse is that you look at it without any filters, since it is only the brightness of the full moon. To enable us to look at the partial eclipse–or today’s sun. They block out all but 1/100,000 of the sunlight, In actuality, they would see NOTHING if they used them during totality. Most people in the audience thought they had to use these glasses throughout the eclipse. But I have been trying for years to get the makers to label them “partial-eclipse glasses.” I discovered that The Museum had handed out “eclipse glasses,” which are also widely available. The students asking questions spoke in such good English that I wondered if the translation had been necessary, but apparently it was helpful. I spoke for an hourĪnd then took another half hour of questions. Student Huijae Cao (we call him “Charles”) had added Chinese translations of the various labels in my PowerPoint presentation, and he translated what I said sentence by sentence. And the backdrop must have been 40 feet long, with my name and a composite image showing eclipse phases. Hanging scrolls six feet high bearing my picture and accompanying text.
It was strange to be greeted outside and in the corridors by identical I was the first lecturer in the building. Such ignorance!Īnyway, we were picked up at our hotel by the museum’s director and taken to the new structure. In at least one case in a basement room on the far side from where the eclipse could be viewed, lest they go blind by looking at the eclipse. In so many previous eclipses - in Australia in 19, in Canada in 1979, and in Virginia in 1984 - the local authorities locked up children,
#Solar eclipse maestro mirror lock up how to
It was inspirational to see so many cheerful and attentive students,Īll eager to learn about how to see the eclipse. The museum is a huge, modern structure in the middle of the city, whose population is about 6 million. Yet quite opened) Zhejiang Science Museum. Yihua Yan from the Beijing observatory and Lin Lan from Hangzhou High School had arranged for me to lecture before 350 high-school students at the spanking new (and not Our fourth day found us in Hangzhou, where Dr. Pasachoff, a Williams College astronomer who is chasing the eclipse from a mountain outside Hangzhou, China. Blogging about the event for TierneyLab is Jay M. The longest total solar eclipse this century will begin on July 22 in India, sweeping east across China and into the Pacific Ocean. Pasachoff wearing “eclipse glasses” at the Zhejiang Science Museum.
0 kommentar(er)
