Total Eclipse

We all gathered in the cup-de-sac to witness the eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017 @ 10:20 am.  Newberg wasn't considered to be in the path of totality, but we were at 99%.  We figured at 99% there wouldn't be a whole lot of difference between a total eclipse and what we observed.  But boy were we wrong!  The street lights came on in the cup-de-sac, but the sky didn't get completely dark like we had imagined. And we missed seeing the beautiful, solar corona that a total eclipse is known for.  It was fun to hold out the colander over our white sheet and see the crescents (instead of full circles) get skinnier and skinnier.  We also got to witness the "shadow bands" that appear a few minutes before and after a total eclipse, which are faint, rapidly-moving bands that look like ripples of sunshine at the bottom of a swimming pool.  The temperature dropped about 10 degrees, and even the shadows of  leaves on the ground were crescent-shaped.  What an amazing experience!

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