Success! Perhaps a bit too much sucess -- over 200 visitors from the Rochester area came to watch the eclipse with us. We all had a nice view of the first half of the eclipse. Not too long after totality, though, the clouds thickened. Still, it was a lot of fun!

You can check out a short video from the local news to see small bits of the crowd and a few shots of the Moon.

Thanks very much to all the people who helped us to share the eclipse with our visitors:

• RIT faculty (in reverse alphabetical order) Anne Young, Tracy Davis, Stacey Davis, Roger Easton, Jen Connelly
• members of the RIT Astronomy Club including (in reverse alphabetical order) Zachary Silberman, Katie Seery, Jam Sadiq, Yash Jadhav, Kevin Cooke, Jesse Bublitz, Triana Almeyda.
• other students who volunteered to man our telescopes and binoculars, including Chi Nguyen (at the 16-inch Dobsonian), Kaitlin Schmidt (at the 12-inch telescope), Alex Habermann (binocular table), the young man who took control of the 14-inch telescope, and the young man who took control of the 8-inch Dobsonian

• Clear Sky Clock weather prediction for Rochester
• NOAA weather page for Buffalo/Rochester area Thanks to the NOAA!
• JPL's Space Calendar