{"id":2294,"date":"2015-03-20T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salibblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:29:06","slug":"solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/2015\/03\/20\/solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2139 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64081.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6408\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Today, Friday 20th March, the Spring Equinox, saw pupils and staff\u00a0at the school witness a near total eclipse of about 97% totality. In the English department copy paper boxes were pierced and used as pin-hole cameras as well as the rather artistic colander method and the creative &#8216;hand pin-hole camera&#8217;. Up in the language department, card with pin holes was used, as well as access to proper eclipse viewing glasses and several layers of film negative. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2138\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64061.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6406\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn6405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2137\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn6405.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6405\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2141\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64151.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6415\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"wp-image-2142 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64261.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through several layers of film negative<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Pupils and staff were excited and amazed at this rare event as the moon cast it&#8217;s shadow over the sun. The weather was fairly kind to us too allowing strategic clear patches in the cloud letting us view this event [safely]. The light faded to dusk, not darkness then despite the cloud then got brighter again fairly quickly as the moon&#8217;s shadow moved away from the sun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2146\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2146\" class=\"wp-image-2146 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/03\/dscn64491.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN6449\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out the other side<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Friday 20th March, the Spring Equinox, saw pupils and staff\u00a0at the school witness a near total eclipse of about 97% totality. In the English department copy paper boxes were pierced and used as pin-hole cameras as well as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/2015\/03\/20\/solar-eclipse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}