What's funny is that when I arrived at my husband's office building to meet him, I was early, so I started talking to a middle age man who was standing alone, looking up with solar eclipse glasses on. I walked up to him and casually said, "Anything happening yet?"
He replied, "Oh, yes! You can already see the crescent clearly."
Wha! I didn't think that would be possible 25 min before our "maximum" coverage point at 10:23 am. I rushed to angle my box and I saw...nothing. "Oh my gosh, it doesn't work! I did something wrong!"
This kind man took off his glasses, offered them to me and said, "My mother always taught me to share." What a gentleman. I put on his glasses and saw the magnificent crescent he was talking about. We introduced ourselves and I declared that I was forever grateful to my new friend, Bob.
My husband showed up a few minutes later and got my box to work (naturally) and was shown the same kindness by Bob and was able to experience the eclipse 3 ways: with Bob's glasses, my elementary project box and a pin hole in cardboard. It was great.
Pinhole in cardboard
Bob and I were sure that it felt colder (this Seattle Times article says that it officially dropped 5 degrees) and thought that these shadows seemed odd, but we couldn't describe why.
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