Monday, May 21, 2012

Blog#1: An Annular solar eclipse

Hi everyone, how was your weekend?
I'm Kotaro Yajima. You guys must already know but tomorrow, we will able to see an annular eclipse in Japan. The weather is supposed not to be good but still we can see. It's a very rare phenomenon  that the Sun, and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. When it happens, the moon totally or partly block the Sun. This time seen from Japan, the Sun and the Moon is perfectly in a line and the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun so it will look like a golden ring. If you miss this time, you won't see this kind of eclipse for 300 years in Japan so you can't miss this! This video and website explain how this happens.

By the way, a total moon eclipse happened in lat winter and I took lot's of pictures of that phenomenon in a park at midnight, so I post one of best pictures I took.


I am so excited and looking forward to seeing this. See you on next class and talk about this!!


4 comments:

  1. Hello,I'm Shiori.

    Did you buy special glasses for annular eclipse?
    And could you watch it well?

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  2. Hey,Im Yuki.

    I did!!
    It was soooo amazing and fantastic!!
    I didnt care that the special glasses was 1500yen!!haha

    I hope you could watch it well,too:)

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  3. Hi This is Noriko.
    I watched annual solar eclipse. It was so beautiful!
    Every news channels broadcasted about it on that day, weren't they?
    From some areas in JPN, people couldn't watch it because of bad weather..
    So we're lucky!

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  4. Hi, This is Ms. MacGregor. Of course, I saw the solar eclipse last week. I wouldn't have missed it. Did you take any photos? If you have any, please put them on this blog.
    I didn't know about the lunar eclipse last year though, so thanks for your great great photo. You said you were in a park - where? And what was the date of the eclipse? Will there be another one soon? Please answer in the blog or reply to my comment.
    Finally, you have a few English mistakes - please fix them.
    For example - lat winter
    the moon totally or partly block the sun
    see you on next class
    moon eclipse

    Can you fix these?

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