Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

On Sunday, May 20, we  got to see an annular eclipse in ABQ. It was incredible! You could sit there watching the moon move across the sun (with safety sunglasses, of course!) When the eclipse was full, you could see only a dim orange outline of the sun. My dad set up this whole "eclipse viewer thingamajig" so that we could see the eclipse, without looking directly at the sun. We wore our special safety glasses that you can ONLY see the sun out of it. They black out the rest! Dad even recorded a video of it! It was a really cool experience, and we're all glad we saw it!

Just starting

perfecting

Dad's eclipse viewer

Outcome

Eclipse Shades (for safety!)

More eclipse

I'm holding it!

Getting closer!

eeeeeep!

Dad in amazement! 

Full thing!!!!!! ;)

Yea!!!

KP

If you look closely, you can see the eclipse shadows!

Our personal eclipses

Yes, it was truly amazing. (be glad we got pics!) we enjoyed it with a lot of "woah!"s and "cool!"s. How awesome that it ended up here!

Kelsie

Who Said Science Isn't Cool?!

The Friday before Halloween, we kept the kids home from school in the morning and took them over to the Northwestern Chemistry department for their annual Halloween show. This was a pretty serious thing. The NU marching band, cheerleaders, various dance groups and even a live band was there to help entertain. It was so cool and definitely worth going late to school!

Curious?

Have you ever been curious enough to know what Wally does for a living? Check out this video:



This is a lot of the work that he did while at Penn State. It's a lot easier to understand it this way if you're confused by anything past neutron and electron-talk like I am.