I'm not sure how it worked over on the other side of the world, but here in Korea, we were privileged enough to have an 80% eclipse which is pretty darn cool.
So at approximately 10:30, Ed and I are outside our apartment building, looking (or not looking) at the sun. I had quickly created a 'solar eclipse box' which didn't work to well. Ed had the more practical idea for solar eclipse viewing: looking through an unused film (it was a special kind of film for a special kind of camera; not your typical film roll).
Anyways, Ed's idea worked better, and we could actually see the eclipse pretty well.
Now the humor lies in the fact that we were the only people outside trying to see the eclipse. The Koreans that were coming and going could care less. Actually a few seemed intrigued by us; me with my head in a box, looking away from the sun, and Ed with a film strip over his eyes. But as far as that a major astrological event was happening, well that wasn't so interesting.
We did get a following of a mom and her two children (who had color cellophane over their eyes for protection). We gladly gave them our box and film so that they wouldn't burn out their eyes too much.
And just in case you missed it (because you know, you weren't in Asia at the time) here are two pictures of the eclipse.
Okay so this is a professional photo taken from National Geographic (and over the Philippines), so its not what we really saw, but it is what I wanted to see!
1 comment:
that is wicked cool, i wish we could have seen it here, anyways nice photos, and thats cool that you guys got to see something that made history
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