{"id":223692,"date":"2024-04-09T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=223692"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:23:29","slug":"a-cosmic-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2024\/04\/09\/a-cosmic-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students, faculty and staff came together as a community to celebrate the eclipse on campus Monday, using safety solar eclipse glasses, pinhole viewers and a telescope with special filters provided by the Physics and Astronomy Department. While Montclair was not in the path of totality \u2013 it was close. And the 90% partial eclipse provided a surreal and cosmic reason to party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHOTO GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0164_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0164_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Students lay on the ground with solar safety classes on, looking at the sky.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0120_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0120_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A professor looks through a high-powered telescope set up for the eclipse watching party.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0190_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0190_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Students and a mascot look in a cereal box made as a solar pinhole viewer.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0174_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0174_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A student looks up wearing solar safety glasses.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0192_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0192_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of students gather, with one looking through solar safety glasses.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/20240408_152130.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/20240408_152130.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"President Jonathan Koppell and students watch the eclipse.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Jonathan Koppell, top left, and students watch the eclipse. (Photo by Rita Walters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0166_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0166_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd gathers for an eclipse watching party.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0133_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0133_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Students with solar eclipse glasses look up, one smiles.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0130_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0130_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A student looks up wearing his solar eclipse glasses.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0147_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0147_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Students look into cereal boxes used as pinhole eclipse viewers. On the side reads &quot;What is this, Solar Eclipse City?&quot; and &quot;Solar Eclipse Rizz Party.&quot;\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0131_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0131_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in red wears eclipse glasses to see the sun.\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0223_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/04082024_0223_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"A sliver of the sun shines past the moon with a building in the foreground.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Photos by <b>John J. LaRosa<\/b> for 91¹ú²ú State University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91¹ú²ú State University community takes a break to enjoy the spectacle of the solar eclipse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":223689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223692"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223749,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223692\/revisions\/223749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}