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The student was one of hundreds of people who enjoyed watching Monday91裸聊视频檚 partial solar eclipse over the noon-hour from behind the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Red Deerians of all ages gathered in the sunny weather to watch the rare event unfold overhead as the moon partially covered the sun in its orbit.
This surge of public interest was 91裸聊视频渆xtraordinary,91裸聊视频� observed nature centre volunteer David Mathias. Red Deer was far off the 91裸聊视频減ath of totality91裸聊视频� that stretched from Mexico to Newfoundland, so only about a third of the sun was obscured by the moon.
Yet the nature centre still had sold out of about 400 pairs of $2.50 eclipse glasses by mid-morning.
91裸聊视频淭o some degree, we are all still sun worshippers,91裸聊视频� concluded Mathias, who was showing the pin-hole method of tracking the eclipse on paper. He believes this event brings into focus how connected and how dependent we are on the sun91裸聊视频檚 rays.
91裸聊视频滻 think it does speak to something deep inside us. One can imagine what something like this would have meant to the Egyptians,91裸聊视频� Mathias added.
Families and friends who gathered for Monday91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渆clipse party91裸聊视频� at the nature centre could view the obscured sun in different ways 91裸聊视频� through eclipse glasses (which block out harmful ultraviolet rays); through various handmade pin-hole cameras made from cereal boxes and or binoculars; or through light reflected from centre telescopes.
Kathryn Huedepohl, special events programmer at the nature centre, amazed onlookers by demonstrating how sunlight pouring out of a viewing scope was scorching enough to set a crayon smoking.
Folks could also peer at the sun through a large, filtered telescope, 12-inch in width and five feet in length. Kids and their parents marvelled at how two small sun spots 91裸聊视频� so tiny they could be mistaken for lint 91裸聊视频� were comparable to how the Earth would look in comparison to the massive sun. Thomas Wooff, the centre91裸聊视频檚 technician, said it would take more than a million Earths to fill the sun91裸聊视频檚 volume.
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Some people expressed disappointment the local school districts were not allowing students outside to watch the eclipse as it could damage their eyes. Instead they were watching it indoors on the internet.
Retired teacher Sylvia Kennedy opted to pull her 18-year-old son out of class to watch it in person through eclipse glasses. 91裸聊视频淚 think the closer we are to nature the better off we are,91裸聊视频� she explained.
Ula Wiebe taught her preschooler about the eclipse from a YouTube video before bringing the child to the centre. Having seen a near total eclipse in Poland as a child 1999, Wiebe recalled the event was 91裸聊视频渧ery exciting91裸聊视频� and impactful.
91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 quite an experience, agreed Evelyn Kheong, who, with her friend Cindy Kuiper, enjoyed watching a small wedge of shadow over the sun get 91裸聊视频渂igger and bigger.91裸聊视频�
Todd Nivens, executive-director of the Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, was thrilled with all the public interest. He feels the eclipse was a positive experience that helped bring people together. 91裸聊视频淓veryone can talk about it91裸聊视频� it91裸聊视频檚 cool and you don91裸聊视频檛 get to see it often.91裸聊视频�
A better view for Red Deerians won91裸聊视频檛 be available until August 22, 2044, when most of Alberta will be in the path of totality of a solar eclipse.
