Fanshawe's public @ 3.15 p.m. Credits - Heli Khetani
On Monday afternoon, Myriads of people gathered as a solar eclipse moved across the eastern Ontario, achieving totality in several communities.
Fanshawe college also organized a little Solar Eclipse watch party and it was a success!
“it’s a pretty cool experience, I mean its kind of neat to see Fanshawe providing some glasses everybody gets an opportunity to view a once in lifetime event,” says one of the faculty members in Fanshawe, Christopher Clifford.
Credits: Abhijeet Shetty
A Student of Fanshawe, Chin says, “this is my first time to watch, I didn’t even plan to come, but solar eclipse was all over social media so I just came and it was Worth it!”
“Actually, feeling very good as my background is Physics, so seeing something like this in real it was kind of exciting,” says, another student of Fanshawe Zephen Marium.
Entertainment speakers were set up, and some students brought cameras to capture the moment, while others conducted science experiments leading up to totality.
“it was like a mystical event, once in a lifetime opportunity, it was so exciting but also a little bit creepy too but it was fine it was magical,” says, student of Fanshawe, Maria Maclaclan
Student with unique equipment for viewing eclipse
Students were out there cheering in excitement and surprise and with trying to click pictures with the help of glasses and what not.
“It was great, everything went awesome! It was a successful event, was not excepting this type of crowd,” says, organizer of the event Dawn Gratton.
The first total solar eclipse to cast its shadow on Canadian Soil since 1979 swept across southwestern Ontario just before 3:15 p.m. today, tracing its path through Quebec and Atlantic Canada, before making its exit in Newfoundland roughly 30 minutes later.
The next total eclipse we’ll see in Canada won’t happen until August 23, 2044, and it’ll be visible from the Rockies.
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