A UW Fond du Lac astronomy professor is in Lincoln, Nebraska Monday for the solar eclipse. Professor Carey Woodward says its the first total solar eclipse that can be viewed across the United States since 1979. Woodward says in Wisconsin the moon will not completely cover the sun. “If you are close but not quite there you see the moon partly covering the sun. That makes it a lot darker and produces some strange effects and that’s what we’re going to see here in Fond du Lac,” Woodward told WFDL news. “….but for a narrow strip of land the moon will very briefly completely cover the sun.” Woodward reminds residents not to look directly at the eclipse without protective glasses or through a pinhole camera box. But he says there is another cool way to watch the eclipse by looking at the ground under a tree. “The sunlight filtering through the leaves of the trees acts like a hundred natural pinhole cameras. Down on the ground you see a whole bunch of little crescent suns.”
