August 21 will be a day to remember. But why? Well there was an eclipse that happened me only happens every few years. And not only that but it was the first in a 100 years to cover North America. What is an eclipse though? Well it’s when the moon is passing by amd covers the sun momentarily.

Here is the dictionary explanation:

Noun
Astronomy.
1. The obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse)
2. A similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.
3. The partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.

To see a solar eclipse though you can’t just look up and see the sun disappear. If you did that you would seriously damage your eyes and your retnus. So you can get glasses to look up and see or there’s also other options and that’s what I did. What you can do is get a colander and hang it off your window so then it will project onto a surface and show crescents that get smaller as the moon covers the sun.

Overall this was an amazing experience and I was able to get a time lapse of all this. So here it is: