Eclipse 2024

 Eclipse

Today a total eclipse will be visible in the United States.  The path of totality is shown above, and a partial eclipse will be visible in every state.

This man was getting ready to view the eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017 in Ontario, Canada.  It was a partial eclipse there.  

Another Canadian photographing the partial eclipse of 2017 from Sandbanks Provincial Park on Lake Ontario.

Note that you should not look directly at the sun without protective eyewear during a partial eclipse, or during a total eclipse until the eclipse becomes total.

Above, members of the Forty Acre nudist club viewing the 2017 eclipse in Missouri, where the eclipse was total.

When the eclipse becomes total, you can and should look at it directly.  It's an amazing sight.  I know; I have seen two total eclipses.

Here's favorite unashamed male Nudist Jeff in Australia during a partial eclipse on April 19, 2023.

There is a 1995 movie called Total Eclipse in which Leonardo DiCaprio appears naked (above).  The movie has nothing to do with an astronomical event.  It takes place in the 1800s.  16-year-old French poet Arthur Rimbaud, played by DiCaprio, who was 20 at the time, seduces 27-year-old Paul Verlaine, another French poet, played by David Thewlis.

There's not much sun in Total Eclipse, but Leonardo DiCaprio does show us the moon.

We end with a clip from Saturday Night Live in which Kenan Thompson impersonates astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, talking about the eclipse in 2017, and why he's planning to watch it naked.  Who knew astronomy could be so much fun?