{"id":21949,"date":"2024-04-09T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/professor-monda-shares-photos-of-total-solar-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:45:14","slug":"professor-monda-shares-photos-of-total-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/professor-monda-shares-photos-of-total-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Monda shares photos of Total Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Monda, an assistant professor in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Department with a M.S. degree in astrophysics from RPI, witnessed the Great North American Eclipse in totality on April 8 at 3:27:31 p.m. EDT from a farm in Peru, NY. The nearly three-hour eclipse included \u00a03 minutes and 34 seconds of totality.<\/p>\n<p>Of the experience, Monda wrote: &#8220;Seeing a total solar eclipse is more than just an astronomical observation or a celestial sight in the sky, it is a human experience, it touches one&#8217;s soul. We can only ponder what other beautiful cosmic sights will be revealed to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Inbound Partial Phase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162562 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo1-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162563 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo2-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162564 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo3-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162565 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo4-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo 1: 2:28 pm<br \/>\nPhoto 2: 3:02 pm<br \/>\nPhoto 3: 3:16 pm<br \/>\nPhoto 4: 3:23 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Totality<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo5-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162567 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo6-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo 5: 3:27pm, Coronal steamers<br \/>\nPhoto 6: 3:29pm, Third Contact, end of total solar eclipse, showing coronal streamers and start of Dimond Ring Effect (almost at 6 o&#8217;clock position)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Partial Phases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162568 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo7-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162569 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo8-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162570 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo9-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162571 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo10-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo 7: 3:32 pm<br \/>\nPhoto 8: 3:44 pm<br \/>\nPhoto 9: 4:09 pm (sunspot visible in center of sun)<br \/>\nPhoto 10: 4:25 pm (sunspot visible)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Solar Eclipse timetable at Peru, NY<\/strong><br \/>\nPartial begins: April 8 at 2:14:03 p.m.<br \/>\nFull begins: April 8 at 3:25:44 p.m.<br \/>\nMaximum: April 8 at 3:27:31 p.m.<br \/>\nFull ends: April 8 at 3:29:18 p.m.<br \/>\nPartial ends: April 8 at 4:37:06 p.m.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Bonus Photos<\/strong><br \/>\nSun pillar before sunrise (6:15 a.m.) at the farmhouse in Peru, NY. (Sun pillars appear as a shaft of light extending vertically above the sun, most often at sunrise or sundown.)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162588\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunPillar1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162589\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SunPilllar2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:45:14 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Richard Monda, an assistant professor in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Department with a M.S. degree in astrophysics from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}