At the entrance to Tel Aviv University this morning (Monday, 3/10/2005) dozens of spectators gathered at any given moment and the final number may have been in the hundreds.
At the entrance to Tel Aviv University this morning (Monday, 3/10/2005) dozens of spectators gathered at any given moment and the final number may have been in the hundreds. Whole families could be seen and the queues for all the telescopes were full all the time.
Nevertheless, for the benefit of those who were not able to see the eclipse with telescopes (which of course had the appropriate filters applied to them) could see it through a projection from the telescope onto paper that was glued to the side of a hollow box (which was left like that since the transit of Venus over the sun about a year ago). And so it was possible to look at the position of the moon covering the sun until the peak of the partial eclipse as seen from Israel -42 percent.
In the upper picture - above: the image of the sun as projected from the telescope into the special box. Below - the radiation reflects the image of the sun onto the paper placed on the floor, very close to the peak of the eclipse around 13:00. Photo: Avi Blizovsky
As you can see, the event, which coincidentally happened on a day off from school, allowed school students to have an extraordinary experience that will be etched in their memory for a long time.
This is a picture taken from the path of the eclipse that moved from the North Atlantic Ocean through Madrid, and crossed Africa, when the peak in terms of the intensity of the eclipse was in South Sudan and Kenya.
As mentioned in any case, it is an annular eclipse, since the moon is at a relatively long distance in its orbit from the earth, so it does not hide the entire sun's wheel.
