Partial Eclipse in UK Wednesday

suave harv Mar 26, 2006 17:16:59

I know this is off-topic, but we've talked about astronomy before here, and I know there's a few here that will be interested.
There's a total solar eclipse this week. I'm going to Turkey to (hopefuly) see it, but a PARTIAL eclipse will be visible from the UK. It'll look like a 'bite' out the sun. Nothing spectacular, but worth looking out for. The biggest 'bite' will be at 11.33 our time, but you'll see a change in the sun from about ten to eleven to twenty past twelve.
And of course, protect your eyes with a suitable filter/glasses/welding mask (you get the idea).

Given that their world view was so cosmically based, I wonder what the ancients would have made of a solar eclipse?

suave harv Mar 26, 2006 17:21:13

Replying to suave harv

http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0212006/

There's a great animated gif here, you can see the shadow over the UK.

elderford Mar 26, 2006 17:28:10

Replying to suave harv

I've seen a total eclipse and it was the most wonderful and frightening thing I have ever experienced.

and I knew what was going on.

Thanks for the heads up suarve harv.

cropredy Mar 26, 2006 21:36:04

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Suarve harv,
" What the ancients would have made of an eclipse."
In 1999, it was the birds and animals that took my attention, they knew well before it happened, quiet, in fact a silence fell all around ourselves here in leafy Oxfordshire.
So , surely you have to ask yourself< what >could they sense ?
I will be out with my little friends on Wednesday, to see if I now can sense what the widlife can sense.
An alteration in gravity, just wish I could be direct in the path of the eclipse, you never know what might drop down through gravity and hit you bang in your head.
Kevin

FourWinds Mar 29, 2006 10:36:41

Replying to suave harv

The weather here is perfect. Looking forward to seeing the Great Wyrm taking a bite out of the sun!

Vybik Jon Mar 29, 2006 10:39:08

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I'm having trouble seeing the sky in Birmingham, never mind the sun.

Typical.

BigSweetie Mar 29, 2006 13:07:34

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a friend of mine in Turkey has just told me it was amazing to see, although she associates the eclipse with bad things because the last time she saw one it was followed by an earthquake

Cheers
Andy

wolfnighthunter Mar 29, 2006 13:36:50

Replying to suave harv

My customers must have thought i was mad, running around my depot with a pair of high strength welding goggles on..looked pretty cool in green!!

wolfy

jimit Mar 29, 2006 13:50:31

Replying to suave harv

Tried pinhole thingy with little success so went for the "10 strips of neg film" option. Cool!
Jim.

Jane Mar 29, 2006 15:09:50

Replying to suave harv

Well I was in meetings all morning but insisted that a break at 11.33am was put on the agenda to allow for eclipse viewing. The whole of my department (all 7 of us) stood on the balcony overlooking the rooftops and spires of Oxford gazing at the sun with our sunglasses on viewing the sun through CDs as wispy cloud hurried by. Lovely! I surprised myself with how well I could explain to them what they were actually looking at, too!