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Friday, April 8th, 2005
| Time | Event |
| 8:11p | partial solar eclipse Today there was a partial solar eclipse visible from Austin. It started at 16:17 and ended at 17:59 local time, so I brought my telescope to work and set it up in the parking lot so everybody could see. It was partly cloudy and I estimate that for about 50% of the duration of the eclipse, the sun was obscured by clouds. However, I managed to get some clear pictures, even though my aging Canon S110 digital isn't the best platform for this sort of thing. Click the photo to see some more.  |
| 10:17p | loss of eyesight you fear So I was curious about the warning label on my telescope:  With the picture, the message it's trying to convey is fairly obvious. But I was curious how the Japanese would translate. So with the help of the Windows Character Map application, and Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary, I came up with the following: 危険
失明の恐れあり太陽を見るな Google translates this as: Dangerous
Loss of eyesight you fear and look at the sun Does this look accurate to those of you who know more Japanese than me? |
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