Riverbank Experiences the Eclipse!
Friday 20 March 2015!
The above date was a very special day as it was the first total eclipse in sixteen years, the last one being in 1999!
Aberdeen was in a good geographical position to view the eclipse but everything depended on the weather. Friday morning was rather damp and dreich and worst of all, there was quite a lot of cloud. However, by 9.30 the sky was clearing and we all went outside to see history in the making.
I won’t go into detail about how an eclipse occurs but there was lots of information and explanation given to the pupils and teachers before the event. The most important thing was to remember not to look at the sun. For that reason we had to make our own pinhole cameras so that we could project the image of the eclipse on to paper so we could see what was going on.A colander also provided lots of holes which could be focused on to paper to view the eclipse. The beauty of this was it gave us multiple images of the eclipse.
We all experienced the drop in temperature and the reduction in the amount of daylight as the eclipse reached its climax!
Just for fun…the joke of the eclipse: How does the man in the moon cut his hair? He clips it! LOL