The oldest photograph of a solar eclipse

Warren de la Rues photograph of total solar eclipse at Rivabellosa, Spain July 18, 1860

the-replacemints asked:

last year i was helping out with my schools solar eclipse presentation and i was in charge of the telescope that was the closest view of the event. so when the moon completely covered the sun, it looked like you werent looking at anything. and some 9 year old was saying that the scope was broken and i was like no? thats the moon? and he was like i cant see it and i was like because? its in front of the sun? and he kept saying the view finder was the scope and i was like no thats not the scope

I’ve done outreach stuff like that before and telling a child “now don’t move the scope” is worthless because damn it they’re gonna lean on the scope and I’m gonna have to reset it

You laugh at this but my college fiends and I deadass took an 8 hour “day drive” to southern Illinois to watch the solar eclipse a few years back and ended up on a 12 hour drive home because of traffic

6 years ago today there was a total solar eclipse over the continental US

Anonymous asked:

What's the coolest space thing you've ever seen?

Definitely solar eclipse

Anonymous asked:

if i wear mirror sunglasses during the solar eclipse will the sun go blind from looking @ itself

Yes and you’ll make the sun sad

This lady retweeted my post about the 4 officers involved in the murder of George Floyd saying how they (the cops) deserved worse and should be thrown in jail with the worst of em and I look at her bio and it’s all TRUMP 2020 VOTE REPUBLICAN blah blah but her replies are all pro BLM and ACAB like

hugeasslesbian

elesheva

recently it has come to my attention that you are not all grocery shopping with your friends. you should grocery shop with your friends. it is fun and it counts as socializing and you can all get excited about buying eggs together. thank you for reading my post about grocery shopping with your friends.

cowboykakashi

probablyjustamagpie

In a new moment of mother daughter bonding my mom and I just broke into the empty apartment next door. In our defense the door was unlocked and all the lights were on and we know for a fact they don’t live there anymore but. I picked the lock to the master bedroom and

it’s. it’s certainly a location

probablyjustamagpie

still thinking about this

probablyjustamagpie

why is my post getting tagged homestuck I’m scared

i hit my post limit for the first time in like 6 years today

bc its 250 posts a day across all of ur sideblogs and not just for an individual blog