Liz Maxwell Harris, a Culver City neighbor of Dr. Janet Hoult and her nuclear physicist husband Charley Hoult, took these photos of yesterday’s solar annular eclipse from the ground in Vets Park.
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Ms. Harris’s first photo is of the Hoults’ AstroScan.
Dr. Hoult, who is preparing a new nook of poetry, says that “we had a great star party with friends from the neighborhood and with my ukelele group at the Senior Center.”
Both Dr. Hoult and Mr. Hoult strongly are involved with astronomy.
As they explained last Friday:
An annular eclipse occurs while the moon is on the far side of its orbit around the earth. The moon appears smaller than the sun and can't completely cover it. The moon's umbral shadow is not long enough to reach earth. So the sun is only partially “covered.”
For Angelenos, the next visible annular eclipse is five years away, in 2017.
Dr. Hoult may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com
