{"id":21170,"date":"2024-04-07T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2024-04-07T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T15:17:10","slug":"2024-april-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21170","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 7 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 April 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On April 6, I saw two <strong>Sara Orangetips<\/strong> on the west slope of Mount Douglas, where Glendenning Trail enters the oaks.\u00a0 On April 5, there was one <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> at Red Barn\/Tod Creek Flats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Solar Eclipse<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jeremy Tatum\u00a0 (retired astronomer)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There will be a small partial eclipse of the Sun tomorrow, starting at 10:41 am PDT,\u00a0 maximum at 11:29 am, ending at 12:19 pm.\u00a0 It will be much smaller than the partial eclipse that we saw last October, but still worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ad<u>How to watch it safely:<\/u>\u00a0 It is very dangerous to attempt to look directly at the Sun, with or without sunglasses.\u00a0 Even expensive polarizing sunglasses, for which you paid hundreds of dollars, are<strong><u> not<\/u><\/strong> <strong><u>remotely suitable<\/u><\/strong> for protecting your eyes.\u00a0 The best way (in my opinion the only way) to watch a partial eclipse safely is to do so under the direct supervision of an experienced astronomer.\u00a0 We are very fortunate here in Victoria, that you can go either to UVic or to the DAO (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), where there will be lots of astronomers showing the eclipse safely, and I strongly advise people to go to one of these places.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry \u2013 I\u2019m not available myself, since I will be visiting at a care home at the time, where I shall be showing the eclipse to residents and staff.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting observation that you can make is to look at the dappled shadow of a leafy broad-leafed tree.\u00a0 There, you will see hundreds of pinhole images of the partially-eclipsed Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 April 7 morning Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On April 6, I saw two Sara Orangetips on the west slope of Mount Douglas, where Glendenning Trail enters the oaks.\u00a0 On April 5, there was one Mourning Cloak at Red Barn\/Tod Creek Flats. \u00a0 Solar Eclipse Jeremy Tatum\u00a0 (retired astronomer) \u00a0There will be a small partial eclipse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}