They love to get excited, even when they don't really understand why, so they were jumping up and down (which made putting on the shoes a little tricky) and shouting, "we're going to miss it, hurry, it's an eclipse, hurry mommy, hurry." Of course, they had no idea what an eclipse was, but they sure weren't going to miss it!
By the time we got downstairs at 9:01 am the sun looked like this:
Cool, huh? It was cloudy and overcast, which made for perfect eclipse viewing. We could look up at the sun with bare eyes and not squint. It was so, so neat.
We were not in an area of Asia that saw a total eclipse (the sun was never totally obscured). At the "most-eclipsed" point it was just a small sliver of sun.
Here is another photo, almost an hour later, at 9:48, as the moon continued it's journey and the sun was re-emerging.
Now it's bright and sunny outside, big puffy white clouds and perfect blue skies with lots of sunshine. Kind of hard to believe that this morning the sky looked like the photo above. So neat!
You can read a CNN article about the eclipse here.
4 comments:
I was curious as to how much you all would see, good photos, thanks -- lead up well covered here for those of us whose eyes pick up on seeing China in a news article.
your Dad's eyes do
Great photos - now the girls know what an eclipse looks like even if they still don't understand exactly what it is! Love you!
So neat!! We just got a book from the library about the moon and sun wanting to be friends and how they pass each other as a way to say hi and keep up a friendship. I think my kids feel a connection to yours when we "share" the sun and moon with you guys! Love ya Julie
That is really cool!! What a neat thing to get to see!
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