Eclipse 2009

So I am going through all my videos and back blogging everything... I've been busy! I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up! I know SO many people are dying to read more! (sarcasm)

Anyway, this was the 2009 Solar Eclipse... On my side of the world, Seoul Korea, we saw a partial eclipse. But you know when someone says "hey, go look at the eclipse" you kind of forget you are going to be looking at the sun? Well that happened to me, and don't lie... it happened to you too!

We tried a few different things to see the eclipse, first there was looking directly at it, which didn't work, than looking at it through the video camera, didn't work to well either... then we took a pair of sun glasses and looked a the reflection, it worked a little better, but still couldn't really see the eclipse.

Then we made a breakthrough! Well, not so much a breakthrough as someone handed us a piece of packing tape and told us to look through it... that worked! It was really neat!

And we discovered another way...



if you look through the clear middle part of a CD it bends the light so you can see the eclipse...

BUT... the best way we discovered...



If you move the metal part of the floppy disk and look through the ribbon that looks the best, and on the video above that is what I am shooting through, the ribbon of a floppy disk.

And that was the Solar Eclipse of 2009!

Thanks for watching, reading and maybe learning a little something along the way!

-Sam-