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SMU Solar Eclipse

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Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up on campus Monday, Aug. 21, to view the Great American Solar Eclipse at a viewing hosted by Dedman College and the SMU Physics Department. The festive event coincided with the kick-off of SMU’s Fall Semester and included Solar Eclipse Cookies served while viewing the rare event. The eclipse reached totality at 1:09 p.m. in Dallas. Physics faculty provided indirect methods of viewing the eclipse, including a telescope with a viewing cone on the steps of historic Dallas Hall, a projection of the eclipse onto a screen in the rotunda of Dallas Hall, and a variety of hand-held cardboard pinhole devices. ...more
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SMU Solar Eclipse
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2017Aug 22
Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up on campus Monday, Aug. 21, to view the Great American Solar Eclipse at a viewing hosted by Dedman College and the SMU Physics Department. The festive event coincided with the kick-off of SMU’s Fall Semester and included Solar Eclipse Cookies served while viewing the rare event. The eclipse reached totality at 1:09 p.m. in Dallas. Physics faculty provided indirect methods of viewing the eclipse, including a telescope with a viewing cone on the steps of historic Dallas Hall, a projection of the eclipse onto a screen in the rotunda of Dallas Hall, and a variety of hand-held cardboard pinhole devices.

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