April 9, 2024
A Cosmic Celebration
Montclair State University community takes a break to enjoy the spectacle of the solar eclipse
Posted in: Homepage News, University
![Students watch the eclipse, while sitting on the grass.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0228_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
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 – it was close. And the 90% partial eclipse provided a surreal and cosmic reason to party.
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![Students lay on the ground with solar safety classes on, looking at the sky.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0164_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A professor looks through a high-powered telescope set up for the eclipse watching party.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0120_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![Students and a mascot look in a cereal box made as a solar pinhole viewer.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0190_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A student looks up wearing solar safety glasses.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0174_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A crowd of students gather, with one looking through solar safety glasses.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0192_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![President Jonathan Koppell and students watch the eclipse.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/20240408_152130.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A crowd gathers for an eclipse watching party.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0166_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![Students with solar eclipse glasses look up, one smiles.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0133_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A student looks up wearing his solar eclipse glasses.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0130_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![Students look into cereal boxes used as pinhole eclipse viewers. On the side reads "What is this, Solar Eclipse City?" and "Solar Eclipse Rizz Party."](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0147_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A woman in red wears eclipse glasses to see the sun.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0131_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
![A sliver of the sun shines past the moon with a building in the foreground.](/responsive-media/cache/newscenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2024/04/04082024_0223_The_Eclipse-LAROSA.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg)
Photos by John J. LaRosa for Montclair State University.