About 100 people, many of them professors and students, showed up to view the unique eclipse, where the moon passes in front of the sun and blocks its light.
Saturday in Calgary, a dense fog added to the atmospheric drama as the astronomy lovers pointed their telescopes and solar-protected binoculars towards the sky."We only get about 60 per cent of the eclipse," said RASC media coordinator Neel Roberts,"because of the area we're in.Roberts said that the best way to think about Saturday's partial eclipse was a kind of opening act for a bigger solar event next spring.
"Starting in Mexico," he said,"going up to the U.S. and coming over the Great Lakes and sailing off to Newfoundland."An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon partially blocks the sun "It's kind of a crapshoot," he said."Unfortunately, most of them are in areas where people don't live – deserts, oceans – but this one is in an inhabited area."
Roberts said he brought solar glasses to the event but didn't actually need them for Saturday's viewing party, because the eclipse didn't have the corona flash, making it safe to view with a naked eye.A second viewing party was also held Saturday at Telus Spark.
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