People looking at the sun during a solar eclipse near Columbus Circle in New York, US, on Monday. “I thought I was prepared for it—I totally wasn’t.”A combination of ten pictures shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse near as a jet plane flies by the total solar eclipse in Guernsey, Wyoming US, on Monday. Eclipse watchers also flocked to Washington’s National Air and Space Museum, where solar telescopes were set up for the occasion. In Mexico, where there was a partial eclipse, astronomy buffs set up telescopes fitted with special sun filters in parks and squares in various cities. “It is such an incredible, sensory-overload kind of event,” eclipse-chaser Fred Espenak, a retired NASA astrophysicist, told AFP of the first total solar eclipse he saw in the United States back in 1970.

Source: Mint August 22, 2017 04:07 UTC