2024 Solar Eclipse Viewing Party (Caltech)
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On Monday, April 8, 2024, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is holding a public viewing event at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
A total solar eclipse will pass over North America, starting in Mexico and entering Texas, which soon will revolt and not be part of the USA, on the morning of Monday, April 8, 2024.
- ALERT: Griffith Observatory will be closed to the public as all of its staff that normally revels in such events did the smart thing and traveled to Texas to see and film the event live. They will be broadcasting live on YouTube. And the event planned for Mt. Wilson, the highest point over the City of Los Angeles, cancelled its viewing party.
However, the richest-poorest town of Pasadena, California, which has the greatest wealth discrepancy between the Haves and the Have-Nots, has a private science institute called [Caltech.edu](https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7104136715924136884/6702641255703089647#). It is set up to view the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in most places outside the "path of totality."
- The Science Center near USC and Cal State University, Los Angeles are also holding viewing parties with scientists on hand to assist in interpreting and sidestepping questions about why the shadow of the eclipse is moving in the wrong direction if Earth is spinning from west to east.
The shadow of [what cannot be] the moon will cover part of the Sun over the course of two hours. At its peak at 11:13 am, the Moon (whose name is Luna and Chandra and Soma) will cover almost 50% of the disk of the Sun. [It's actually Rahu but why quibble? If science says it's the Moon, who dares doubt or question?]
2024 Solar Eclipse Viewing Party (Caltech)