Solar Eclipse activities at Castle Dale Library

 The Castle Dale Library is offering FREE, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic) activities related to the Solar Eclipse, Monday August 14, at 2:30 p.m.  During this activity we will be conducting shadow experiments. On Monday August 21, we will be having a Total Eclipse of the sun party. The Library will be giving away viewing glasses, and we will be making smores’ with solar ovens.  The party begins at 11 a.m.
The last total solar eclipse viewed from contiguous United States was on Feb. 26, 1979 whose path passed through the northwestern U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. After the August 2017 total solar eclipse, the next annular solar eclipse that can be seen in the continental United States will be on October 14, 2023 which will be visible from Northern California to Florida. Following this, we will have a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 visible from Texas to Maine.
In Utah we will not be able to view the total solar eclipse but a partial, but still significant eclipse with a magnitude .93. The partial eclipse will begin about 10:13 a.m. and peaking at 11:33 a.m. and finishing by 12:59 p.m.
For the phases of the eclipse check out this link. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/salt-lake-city
For the first STEM activity we held on Aug. 7 we made water color sun prints.