no, if you are on the other side of the earth, it would not be visible.) we discussed the idea of waking up our neighbors, the Lese villagers who's homeland we were visiting. One we had discovered!Īfter answering Rich's questions (he was a social anthropologist, so no reason he'd know) about who else could see this (yes, it is visible everywhere where you can see the moon. "Hey, wait a minute, the moon is not supposed to change that fast! What's going on here?"Īt first we panicked because we thought that a giant invisible Dragon was eating the moon, but in short order our right brains took over from our left brains (or do I have that backwards?) and we realized that we were observing an eclipse of the moon. Then someone noticed a little while later that it was even less full. But then another one us noticed that it was not full, and made that remark. One of us had mentioned that the moon was full, which you could tell by looking at it, and there was this big round thing. I was in the Ituri Forest, at the Harvard Ituri Project's basecamp, with cultural anthropologist Richard Grinker. The Harvard Ituri Project Base Camp: Hanging out in the baraza. It was a near total eclipse of the moon which is much more ordinary, except that it happened the way this one did, which was fairly extraordinary. It wasn't total, and it wasn't even the sun. Having seen that during that eclipse, I've noticed it many times since, but caused by other light sources, and I'm always reminded of that day.īut my most memorable eclipse was not a total eclipse of the sun. These were the trees on Divinity Avenue between the Peabody Museum and the Divinity School. I did get to see a full-on solar eclipse with no clouds some time in the 1980s or 90s in Cambridge, and the most memorable thing about that was the eerie double shadow effect caused by the penumbra's light passing through the tree crowns. This may be the first time I've ever admitted that I did that. That was cool, but being tethered to the phone I missed the part about it getting all dark and a dragon eating the sun and everything.
The temperature went down during the eclipse, then it went back up again.
I called the number again and again and wrote down the time and temperature and made a graph. There was a phone number you could call and a lady's voice would give you the time and temperature. I was such a geek that I actually missed the eclipse because I was busy collecting data. Some other time we can argue over whether or not Carlie, singing in this video on Martha's Vineyard, was referring to the March 1970 eclipse or the July 1972 eclipse, but I'm sure it was the former, because that's the one everybody got all excited about.) (The eclipse reference is just past three minutes. I was a kid, and it was the one Carlie Simon sang about, in March 1970.
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