{"id":27699,"date":"2017-08-22T04:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=27699"},"modified":"2017-11-06T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:16:54","slug":"leclipse-solaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/leclipse-solaire\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;\u00c9clipse Solaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many people living in across a certain path in the United States, today was a historic day. It was the first time a full solar eclipse was viewable from the US since 1919. (The solar eclipse of 1919 was also a particularly historic one, as Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity was shown to be correct as starlight visibly bent around the sun.)<\/p>\n<p>The total eclipse was mostly viewable from a path ranging from Oregon to Georgia across the United States. Up in New York, where I live, the sun was covered nearly 50% by the moon at the height of the eclipse. It was still an incredible experience, though, and my family and I made a simple pinhole camera to look indirectly at the eclipse (and then used welder&#8217;s glass to look at it directly!).<\/p>\n<p>But the solar eclipse was also partly visible in France, particularly in Bretagne (or Brittany), and <em>les d\u00e9partments d&#8217;Outre-mer<\/em>, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Guyanne. In French, the word for the solar eclipse is simply\u00a0<em>l&#8217;\u00e9clipse solaire.\u00a0<\/em>Easy enough, right? A total solar eclipse is <em>une \u00e9clipse solaire totale.\u00a0<\/em>As we know, a solar eclipse occurs when the moon is aligned between the Earth and the sun.\u00a0<em>Une \u00e9clipse solaire se r\u00e9produit lorsque le Soleil, la Terre, et la Lune se trouve align\u00e9s.\u00a0<\/em>It is also important to wear special NASA-approved glasses when looking up at the sun, or to watch the eclipse indirectly using a pinhole camera.\u00a0<em>Il faut porter des lunettes speciales approuv\u00e9s par la NASA pour regarder le soleil, ou regarder l&#8217;\u00e9clipse indirectement en utilisant un appareil \u00e0 st\u00e9nop\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In French, a pinhole camera is called\u00a0<em>un appareil \u00e0 st\u00e9nop\u00e9,\u00a0<\/em>or simply\u00a0<em>un st\u00e9nop\u00e9.\u00a0<\/em>The word\u00a0<em>st\u00e9nop\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>actually comes from the ancient Greek meaning &#8220;small opening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did you happen to watch the solar eclipse? Were you in the path of totality? Did you construct a pinhole camera, or\u00a0<em>un st\u00e9nop\u00e9<\/em>, in order to watch the eclipse without hurting your eyes? Let us know how you experienced this historic moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/7237432482_6679970303_z-350x232.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/7237432482_6679970303_z-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/7237432482_6679970303_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>For many people living in across a certain path in the United States, today was a historic day. It was the first time a full solar eclipse was viewable from the US since 1919. (The solar eclipse of 1919 was also a particularly historic one, as Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity was shown to be correct&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/leclipse-solaire\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":27700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[408503,432,501899],"class_list":["post-27699","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-free-french-lesson","tag-french-vocabulary","tag-solar-eclipse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699\/revisions\/29255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}