{"id":248,"date":"2017-08-22T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.vyporx.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:52:19","slug":"solar-eclipse-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/solar-eclipse-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Eclipse of 2017 was pretty cool. My wife went and cut out viewers from cereal boxes for our kids. While we didn&#8217;t experience totality, it did make things look weird. The way the sun was being blocked, the air died down a bit, there was no noise, the trees and plants looked fake. Everything felt so strange. So many people took pictures of the eclipse but I think <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/the-eclipse-2017-umbra-viewed-from-space-2\">NASA got the best picture of the event<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apparently from our location, the amount of sunlight we received was equivalent to what Saturn and Jupiter experience in full sunlight. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/solar-eclipse-brightness-map-2017-8\">You can check out what yours was like here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tumblr_o5y4vdypUL1sdv4q6o1_250.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While my wife was making viewers for the little ones, I decided to make one for myself. I figured old DVD&#8217;s were transparent enough to see the sun so I taped them to a pair of old sun glasses. Don&#8217;t do what I did. It probably wasn&#8217;t safe. While I was able to see the sun slightly, it was very blurry and dark. So I used it twice. \u00a0One for testing purposes and the other for my wife&#8217;s laughing fit-facebook post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/solar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/solar.jpg 478w, https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/solar-416x555.jpg 416w, https:\/\/vyporx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/solar-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How was your experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Eclipse of 2017 was pretty cool. My wife went and cut out viewers from cereal boxes for our kids. 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