Are you ready for the solar eclipse this afternoon? 🕶️🌞 Observing solar eclipses has fascinated people for centuries, including well-known Pittsburgh astronomer John Brashear who traveled to Winnemucca, Nevada in late 1888 to view the total solar eclipse on Jan. 1, 1889.
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“The first view of the totality of the total phase of the eclipse was so grand and so much beyond my highest conception of what it would be, that I was tempted to drop pencil and sketch plate and look only at the glorious spectacle presented," Brashear shared.