Watch the Moon Bite the Sun’s Disk! Today’s Solar Eclipse!!
Mon Apr 8, 2024 2:15–4:30 PM
Location
Kresgee Oval
Description
Everyone is welcome to Kresge Oval to watch the Partial Solar Eclipse using safe solar viewing.Drop by anytime between 2:15 pm and 4:40 pm – or stay for the duration! There’s always something happening!!!Join Edgerton Center Staff for outdoors fun with the sun.Share wonder of the Moon overlapping the Sun! Marvel at crescent suns cast by shadows, tubes and holes! Sketch! Tell stories!Look up that day ONLY using solar filters over your eyes, or covering a small telescope.For MIT: Partial eclipse starts 2:16 pm. Maximum at 3:29 pm. End of Partial eclipse 4:39 pm. At Maximum, 92.5% of the sun is blocked by the moonThis event is inspired by Edgerton Center Seminar EC.050/090 Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future with the Past http://student.mit.edu/catalog/mECa.html#EC.050Questions? Contact marvelin@mit.edu
- Watch the Moon Bite the Sun’s Disk! Today’s Solar Eclipse!!Everyone is welcome to Kresge Oval to watch the Partial Solar Eclipse using safe solar viewing.Drop by anytime between 2:15 pm and 4:40 pm – or stay for the duration! There’s always something happening!!!Join Edgerton Center Staff for outdoors fun with the sun.Share wonder of the Moon overlapping the Sun! Marvel at crescent suns cast by shadows, tubes and holes! Sketch! Tell stories!Look up that day ONLY using solar filters over your eyes, or covering a small telescope.For MIT: Partial eclipse starts 2:16 pm. Maximum at 3:29 pm. End of Partial eclipse 4:39 pm. At Maximum, 92.5% of the sun is blocked by the moonThis event is inspired by Edgerton Center Seminar EC.050/090 Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future with the Past http://student.mit.edu/catalog/mECa.html#EC.050Questions? Contact marvelin@mit.edu