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| Solar Eclipse 5-20-12 "When you wish upon a star * Makes no difference who you are...Anything your heart desires, Will come to you....." |
Oh what a fantastic evening we had during the beautiful Annular Solar Eclipse ! I will never forget the feeling of basking in the golden rays of the Ring of Fire! Remember that Disney song that Jimminy Cricket Sang on the movie Pinocchio When you wish upon a Star? Well that is what song went through my head as this event was going on. So magical ! We were fortunate indeed to be right in the path of this event. There were many people lined up along the roads in Kanaraville who had been planning for this Solar Eclipse for 5 months. Paul was driving home from work from Hurricane and he said it looked like Woodstock !
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| The Ring of Fire ~ Annular Solar Eclipse From Little Utah Farm 5-20-12 |
Paul used his welding visor, our brand new Nikon Cool Pix L810, a tripod and the timer feature. Wa La we were able to view the whole thing through the camera.
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| Paul and Deborah Moen during the Solar Eclipse May 2012 |
Paul and I sat out on the lawn. The bright light was an indescribable hue. You can see how bright the Sun is even as the New Moon covers over 80% of the sun's surface. Paul laid down on his side and used his welding visor in from of the camera. I supported his head with my knee. I could feel the New Moon squeezing all the light out of the sun. It was shining on my face and arms and pouring it's beauty all over the land. It felt like a magician's "presto chango !" The eclipse was really fast as the world turns. Like when we see the sunseting just above the hills then it slips behind the peak and it is gone. Poof*. We still had an hour or two of daylight here afterward after the finale and basked in the afterglow.
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| The first stage of the Solar Eclipse |
We were so excited to see the results of the first pictures. Here are a few more...
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| Right before the Ring was complete Solar Eclipse 2012. |
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| Ring of fire solar Eclipse Utah |
It was divine to be the glorious rays of the Ring of Fire blazing the cosmic rays of Light.
Oh and if you want to see the next event in the sky visit http://www.slooh.com/transit-of-venus/ They have a wonderful live broadcast and Web Cam Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 resonances. Before 2004, the last pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The first of a pair of transits of Venus in the beginning of the 21st century took place on 8 June 2004 and the next will be on 6 June 2012. After 2012, subsequent transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125.
Thank you for coming to visit Little Utah Farm. Tell me did you experience the Solar Eclipse? Well I hope you come back to visit again.
Until next time,
Over and Out here,
Deborah
