Depending on the weather, people who turned their eyes upwards in Newfoundland and Labrador Wednesday were able to see a partial solar eclipse.
Eclipse was expected to cover about half the sun in Newfoundland
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Depending on the weather, people who turned their eyes upwards in Newfoundland and Labrador Wednesday afternoon were able to see a partial solar eclipse.
Churchill Falls was the first area to catch a glimpse of the partial eclipse, starting at 1:37 AT (2:07 NT).
The eclipse gradually appeared across the province on Wednesday afternoon. The partial eclipse will end in St. John’s at 4:37 p.m. NT.
While the range of the eclipse varies depending on location, in Newfoundland the moon was expected to cover approximately 50 per cent of the sun.
At the Johnson Geo Centre in St. John’s, an excited watch party watched the moon slowly pass in front of the sun Wednesday afternoon — with special safety viewing glasses in tow.
The watch party was going on from 12 p.m. NT to 5 p.m., alongside the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and STEM Girls.
Hiding Neilson, an astronomer at Memorial University, told CBC that he could see the moon “eating the sun up” through this telescope.
