ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE 2012

When Charlie and I got home from our trip to see Sarah's graduation, we had a chance to take a look at the annular solar eclipse.  In LA we only got 89% of the eclipse.  Ian and Sarah drove north to check out the total solar eclipse (annular) more to the north.  Dean Papadakis, a fellow physics teacher at the high school, had the school's reflector telescope out, as well as a great pinhole camera (with a lens and back sheet), and solar lenses that allowed you to look straight at the sun without blinding yourself.  The high school  balcony in front of the science classes faces to the west, so we had a fantastic view of the eclipse.  Another nifty side effect of the eclipse was that the sunlight spots though trees looked crescent-shaped instead of round holes.

Here are a few photos.