A solar eclipse darkened much of Asia this morning. Here in the southern latitudes of Hong Kong we only got a 70% eclipse, but it was still pretty cool. There was a noticeable blunting of the harsh sunlight and the streets were crowded with people wearing funky 3-D glasses looking skyward. I'm told Northern China was the best place to view the eclipses' full effect, which is ironic because the Chinese don't think twice about the pollution which blots out their sun on every other day.
I took a brief unprotected glance at the sun and I've been seeing a big multicolored blob in my central vision ever since. Unwise, but such an event won't happen for another 300 years so I wasn't going to let corneal damage get in my way. Perhaps I should have used this unconventional viewing method:
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