HALIFAX — Early next month, millions of Canadians will gaze skyward to witness a total solar eclipse. But some stand to be disappointed as clouds get in the way. David Hunter plans to have an unobstructed view, and he's inviting others to join him.
HALIFAX — Early next month, millions of Canadians will gaze skyward to witness a total solar eclipse. But some stand to be disappointed as clouds get in the way.
As it ascends, the balloon will be carrying a 2.3-metre tube-shaped box equipped with tiny computers, four tracking devices and several cameras, some of which will be transmitting images to a ground station at the Florenceville Inn. Assuming there is little cloud cover, the sun's rays will disappear into twilight, glimmering stars and planets will appear and the horizon will glow orange like at sunset. At that point, the sun's wispy corona will fan out from behind a black moon, an ethereal sight normally lost in daylight glare.
"It spins, but it also bobs and weaves," Hunter said, adding that students from the University of New Brunswick also worked on the project."This has been the most difficult part ... I was told it was impossible." He built a telescope from a kit, and in March 1970 he travelled to Nova Scotia with his family to see a total solar eclipse.
And when he learned that the 2024 solar eclipse would see the moon's shadow pass directly over his hometown, he thought,"I don't want to be clouded out again."
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