The Sky's Gone Out: Solar Eclipse 2023 (live)

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Annular solar eclipse transfixes crowds across the Americas (msn.com)

The partial solar eclipse of Los Angeles | Oct. 14th | Griffith Observatory

Griffith Park Observatory, Hollywood, LA

(Griffith Observatory) This live viewing is scheduled for Oct. 14: Griffith Observatory is hosting a live online broadcast for the partial eclipse of the sun in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 14, from 8:00-11:00 am, PDT.

The eclipse begins precisely at 8:08 am, reaches its maximum at 9:24 am, and ends at 10:50 am IF the soothsayers with their calculators have gotten it right.

As seen from Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when [Rahu devours Surya the Sun and only releases it by a petitionary prayer or incantation, according to Buddhist cosmology, which is ignored by science that stands by its cockamamie story that] the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and fully or partially blocks the Sun.

Thousands will overtake the Observatory for this

[Cockamamie? Yes: The sun ALWAYS rises in the east (New York). We (Los Angeles) are in the west. Therefore, the sun orbits over us coming this way to set in the Pacific Ocean. How then, at 8:00 in the morning on a Saturday, will it already be here over the Pacific Northwest, starting in Oregon and then moves, not east to west but northwest to southeast? The viewing line for the full solar eclipse, like the last one that started over Oregon and went southeast to Florida and beyond, is only so wide. By the properties of light, a shadow cannot be cast with a width any shorter than the object casting it. Try it. Hold a light (mimicking the sun) close to an object, like the hand or ball, and measure the shadow. Either it will be as wide as the hand or ball (depending how close to the surface it is) or it will be bigger, never narrower. So how would a 2,000-mile-wide globe (our Moon) ever cast a shadow that is only 50 miles wide (the width of the full, not partial, eclipse)? We imagine that the Sun, being so far away, narrows the width of the shadow in drawings. But that never happens in reality. It's a fact about light. So the Rahu Theory starts to be more convincing. Also, look for the Moon in the morning. If visible at all, it'll be nowhere near the Sun, approaching it to begin eclipsing it. Since when does the Moon ever jump to get somewhere else at a scheduled time. We've seen it hold still in the night or appear roughly in the same spot night after night for a few days. But otherwise it comes there an hour or so later, or it does something completely new and out of view.]

In a partial eclipse, the Moon and Sun are not exactly in line, and only a portion of the Sun’s disc is blocked.

In Los Angeles on October 14, 2023, the Moon will cover 78 percent of the Sun’s diameter and 71 percent of the Sun’s area.

The next partial solar eclipse visible in Los Angeles will occur on April 8, 2024.

If viewing a solar eclipse in person, proper eye protection is ESSENTIAL to shield the eyes from dangerous and blinding solar radiation.

NOTE: While those in Los Angeles will see a partial solar eclipse, an annular solar eclipse will be visible in a swath across the U.S. from the Oregon coast to Texas.

An annular eclipse is when the Moon covers the face of the Sun, but the outer edge of the Sun’s disk is still visible and appears as a single ring of light.

It is unsafe to view an annular eclipse without proper eye protection. 

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