![]() ![]() ![]() Yet he's never failed to be moved by what he calls "the awe and splendor" of the event. He's traveled thousands of miles to take in an event that lasts only a few minutes - and, depending on weather, might be glimpsed for only a few moments, or not at all. ![]() It gives you a whole new perspective on the solar system and our place in the universe."ĭana Meyer Baron, who lives in Boulder, now has five total solar eclipses under his belt. It's like standing on an alien world, looking at a sky you've never seen before. It's the closest thing to space travel that any of us will get to experience. ![]() "A partial solar eclipse is interesting," Baron says. The difference was like, well, night and day: While a partial eclipse presents a black thumbnail obscuring a slice of the sun, in a total eclipse the moon covers the face of the sun and the sky plummets into darkness, exposing the spectacular silvery radiance of the corona and a celestial gathering of planets and stars. In 1998 Baron traveled to Aruba to witness his first total eclipse. Baron, who was working as a science correspondent for National Public Radio at the time and preparing a piece about a partial eclipse, took the advice to heart. Twenty-three years ago, an astronomer named Jay Pasachoff told David Baron that he owed it to himself to experience at least one total solar eclipse before he died. ![]()
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