Annular Eclipse Viewing Party
We started out with just my little family and then one neighbor came out, and then the neighbor's family drove by and joined us and more neighbors came until we had a good sized group. We didn't have glasses to use but I read online that you could reflect the solar eclipse through a pair of binoculars onto a piece of paper. We were so surprised when it worked! Our neighbor did have some welding glass we could look through and I attempted to photograph it through this glass but it didn't seem to work, but that didn't stop me for trying again and again. Even though you can't see the eclipse in these I love the green surreal feeling to them. A photo of the sun without the glass didn't do any better. The binoculars onto the paper on the other hand worked fabulously and I was able to take lots of fun photos. We thought the shadow looked like Wall-E from the Disney movie. Our neighbor, Marco, to...