5/20 Atlas AMPS 248, +3 256, PMPS 262

[Beth & Atlas]

Yesterday's Condo

Well, Attie had a nice beautiful surf yesterday, but by the evening he was being finicky about eating the duck. :-| His bowel seems to be doing OK, so I think it is just him being finicky, plus with such pretty numbers his appetite waned.

This morning he seemed a bit more hungry to eat the duck, but did not finish the entire nuggett sprinkled with Fortiflora, so we'll see how today goes.

Anybody going to catch the eclipse today/this evening?

If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight will seem to come early on Sunday afternoon, well before the sun actually sets.

The cause: a rare annular solar eclipse -- a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and the sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun's disc.

This is not the kind of total eclipse of which you usually see pictures -- the moon blocking the sun completely, creating a few moments of near-night in the middle of the day, with only the sun's ethereal corona visible around the moon's edges. The sky will darken a bit, but there will still be a blindingly bright ring (an "annulus" in Latin) of sun, and it's dangerous to look directly at it.

Still, there will be a striking sight to see, if you look at a heavily-filtered image projected onto a screen through binoculars or a small telescope, or protect your eyes with No. 14 arcwelders glass (not something found at most hardware stores).

The ring will be visible Sunday afternoon in a strip that begins on the California-Oregon coast and stretches southeastward across Reno, Nev., the Grand Canyon, and Albuquerque, N.M., and ends at sunset near Lubbock, Texas. In the map we've provided, the best viewing is in the yellow band; outside it, people will see a partial eclipse.

The moon's shadow moves quickly -- about 1,200 mph. Some times when the moon's disc will be most centered over the sun's are as follows:

Eureka, Calif.: 6:28 p.m. PDT
Reno, Nev.: 6:31 p.m. PDT
Grand Canyon, Ariz.: 6:35 p.m. MST
Albuquerque: 7:36 p.m. MDT (note time zone change)
Lubbock: 8:36 p.m. CDT (another time zone change)

Hey Kitties!!! I think it is time we goes to the Grands Canyon!!!! I'z bringin' the glasses for dis events! ~~Attie

 

[Michelle and Mannie (GA)]

Re: 5/20 Atlas AMPS 248

ATTIE DUDE! I will comes with you! Gotta see this, ya know? ~~ Mannie. pssttttt - Lubs the glasses dude.

Morning Beth - good eating vines for Attie. I hope the duck is a success!

And yupp on the eclipse - if we can see it. We are rather clouded over... so dunno: chances aren't looking too good right now...

 

[mybuddybinks]

Re: 5/20 Atlas AMPS 248, +3 256

Attie...eat yo duck!!

and we'll be looking for the eclipse as well!!

 

[Beth & Atlas]

Ok...we're here ....where are you?


Da' bean pulled it off!!!! Mannie's youz gots to seez! Rafting and Canyon and well ok that was a few years ago....~~Attie