Residents and visitors across the city gazed up at the San Antonio sky Saturday morning as the moon slowly passed in front of the sun.
Visitors at Scobee Education Center and Planetarium get a glimpse of the eclipse in its early stages as clouds break around 11:05 a.m.Residents, scientists and visitors across San Antonio gazed skyward Saturday morning to witness a rare celestial show, filling children and adults alike with a sense of wonder.
Bee Vasquez and John Cwiek sat in camp chairs patiently waiting for intermittent glimpses of the developing eclipse through spotty cloud cover. They said San Antonians should feel special in that the city was positioned ideally for both the annular eclipse and the total solar eclipse coming in April.Bee Vasquez and John Cwiek sit in camp chairs patiently waiting for intermittent glimpses of the developing eclipse through spotty cloud cover.
At STEMclipse, an event at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology at Port San Antonio, there was more excitement. About 500 people in the parking lot cheered, whistled and clapped at 11:52 a.m. as an announcement echoed: “The ring of fire is happening right now. The ring of fire is happening right now.”
“It looks like a banana,” said Wren, a first grader at ALA’s Euclid Street campus, before racing off to the zip line. Wren was dressed to the nines, in a fancy white dress with crinoline ruffles and white gloves, which she soon discarded. At Mission San José, folks stopped on the sidewalks and streets outside the mission to stare at the sky, squinting at the sun through eclipse glasses as the sky took on an eerie periwinkle hue.
“We were really excited when we found out San Antonio would be in the path” of the eclipse, Angela said.
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