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MATHEW WEDEL, PhD, Associate
Professor of Anatomy – Pomona campus.
O photos of totality.
Wedel and his family traveled to
Alliance, Nebraska to seek out the perfect
n August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed
“About halfway between first contact
the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. A total of
and totality, the north wind started
pushing clouds across the sky.
215 million American adults – 88 percent -
Fortunately the cloud moved out of the
viewed the eclipse directly or electronically,
according to a study by the University of Michigan
mean precisely then. Above is a shot from
just a couple of seconds before, with the
and NASA. way right at the start of totality. And I
diamond ring effect haloed by the tail-
end wisps of cloud. Those wisps moved
WesternU’s COMP-Northwest campus in Lebanon, out just as the moon covered the last
Oregon closed on Aug. 21 in anticipation of the light of the sun, and our view of totality
large influx of visitors to the area due to the was perfectly clear.”
eclipse. About 100 students and staff came to Shot with an Apple iPhone 7 in HDR
campus for a barbecue, volleyball tournament and mode.
eclipse viewing party. The campus was in the path
of totality.
LUKE RAUCH, Recruitment Officer –
More than 100 students, faculty and staff filled Lebanon campus.
the Esplanade of WesternU’s Pomona, California “One of the safest methods to view a solar eclipse is
campus to view a partial eclipse. Some students called ‘projection.’ It’s very simple, very cheap, and
and faculty from the College of Allied Health very quick to make. Projectors work by having a
Professions took time to peek through solar telescope point directly at the sun and focus on the
image through an eyepiece onto and/or through a
eclipse glasses before heading to class and a few screen held at some length away. Since multiple
faculty and students from the College of people can see the image at the same time, projectors
Pharmacy stepped outside and used a pinhole and are very useful for showing solar activity to crowds or
people waiting in line to use larger telescopes.”
paper. The largest crowd was in front of the (Photo-Luke Rauch, projector-Robert Elder.)
Health Professions Center. Faculty, staff and
students from the colleges of Optometry, Podiatric
Medicine and Osteopathic medicine, and others,
were eager and excited to find ways to view the
eclipse. There were many pinhole paper projects
and a variety of different-sized pinhole boxes.
Backdrop photo by Jeff Malet
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Professor of Anatomy – Pomona campus.
O photos of totality.
Wedel and his family traveled to
Alliance, Nebraska to seek out the perfect
n August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed
“About halfway between first contact
the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. A total of
and totality, the north wind started
pushing clouds across the sky.
215 million American adults – 88 percent -
Fortunately the cloud moved out of the
viewed the eclipse directly or electronically,
according to a study by the University of Michigan
mean precisely then. Above is a shot from
just a couple of seconds before, with the
and NASA. way right at the start of totality. And I
diamond ring effect haloed by the tail-
end wisps of cloud. Those wisps moved
WesternU’s COMP-Northwest campus in Lebanon, out just as the moon covered the last
Oregon closed on Aug. 21 in anticipation of the light of the sun, and our view of totality
large influx of visitors to the area due to the was perfectly clear.”
eclipse. About 100 students and staff came to Shot with an Apple iPhone 7 in HDR
campus for a barbecue, volleyball tournament and mode.
eclipse viewing party. The campus was in the path
of totality.
LUKE RAUCH, Recruitment Officer –
More than 100 students, faculty and staff filled Lebanon campus.
the Esplanade of WesternU’s Pomona, California “One of the safest methods to view a solar eclipse is
campus to view a partial eclipse. Some students called ‘projection.’ It’s very simple, very cheap, and
and faculty from the College of Allied Health very quick to make. Projectors work by having a
Professions took time to peek through solar telescope point directly at the sun and focus on the
image through an eyepiece onto and/or through a
eclipse glasses before heading to class and a few screen held at some length away. Since multiple
faculty and students from the College of people can see the image at the same time, projectors
Pharmacy stepped outside and used a pinhole and are very useful for showing solar activity to crowds or
people waiting in line to use larger telescopes.”
paper. The largest crowd was in front of the (Photo-Luke Rauch, projector-Robert Elder.)
Health Professions Center. Faculty, staff and
students from the colleges of Optometry, Podiatric
Medicine and Osteopathic medicine, and others,
were eager and excited to find ways to view the
eclipse. There were many pinhole paper projects
and a variety of different-sized pinhole boxes.
Backdrop photo by Jeff Malet
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