{"id":88,"date":"2022-10-24T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/?p=88"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:10:20","slug":"partial-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/2022\/10\/24\/partial-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Solar Eclipse &#8211; Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/24\/science\/partial-solar-eclipse.html\">partial solar eclipse<\/a> will be visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A partial solar eclipse is when the moon makes moves in its orbit to be in between the sun and the earth. The moon will block a part of the sun giving spectators a rare sight from Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partial solar eclipse can be seen first in Reykjavik, Iceland, at 8:58 a.m. local time. From Reykjavik the sun will be 20% covered. The sun coverage will vary depending on your viewing location, coverage will get all the way up to about 79% if you view from Chelyabinsk in Russia&#8217;s southern Ural region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Massey the deputy executive of the Royal Astronomical Society in the United Kingdom who uses the &#8220;wow&#8221; factor to determine how good of a view can be seen from different locations said &#8220;In London, the eclipse will be a &#8216;bit wow&#8217; and in Chelyabinsk the eclipse will produce a &#8216;medium wow'&#8221;. Regardless of the &#8220;wow&#8221; factor Dr. Massey also says &#8220;if you&#8217;ve never seen one before, its a great experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you watch the eclipse remember to never look directly at the sun. To safely watch the sun use a pair of special pair of glasses or use a pinhole projector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Massey mentioned eye safety as well as talking about the eclipse, he said &#8220;People need to understand it is not safe to look at the sun, even if it is 20% covered&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> For those who won&#8217;t be able to view the eclipse due to the location of the astronomical event, a total lunar eclipse will occur from November 7th to the 8th and will be visible from the Americas and Eastern Asia. A lunar eclipse is when the moon passes through the Earth&#8217;s shadow and this lunar eclipse will be the last one for the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia on Tuesday. A partial solar eclipse is when the moon makes moves in its orbit to be in between the sun and the earth. The moon will block a part of the sun giving spectators a rare sight from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tss004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}