Solar Eclipse August 1st

[gurusan]

damned clouds

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

The moon passing in front of the sun?

I'd certainly hope its never the other way round!

 

[gurusan]

i just saw it wearing some sunglasses and through a layer of tinted perspex...looks pretty cool. Tried taking pics but it didnt' work

 

[peterattheboro]

damned clouds

+1

What's the next big thing happening that's gonna happen in our lifetime?

I remember the comet and the eclipse in '99.

I like this kind of stuff

 

[pastymuncher]

Not going to see anything up here. Bucketing down with rain with a very low cloudbase. So low in fact we are almost in it!! We live on top of a very big hill surrounded by mountains.

 

[pastymuncher]

+1

What's the next big thing happening that's gonna happen in our lifetime?

I remember the comet and the eclipse in '99.

I like this kind of stuff

Probably the comet that is going to pass very close to us (some say between us and the moon!!) in 2029.

 

[Oxygen]

I saw it - we made a pinhole in a piece of card and reflected the image on to a white piece of paper.
Magnified it to around the size of a 20p and you could definitely see the small bite out of the sun.... excellent fun.

 

[peterattheboro]

Probably the comet that is going to pass very close to us (some say between us and the moon!!) in 2029.

Gah!

 

[PhillyDee]

I saw it - we made a pinhole in a piece of card and reflected the image on to a white piece of paper.
Magnified it to around the size of a 20p and you could definitely see the small bite out of the sun.... excellent fun.

One of the only ways you can do this without using a special mylar / perspex filter. Seriously people, dont look at the sun directly . . . . Even 2/3 pairs of sunglasses will still damage your eyes due to the infra red / uv radiation. You might think its dark enough, but without a proper solar filter/solar glasses etc. you can still damage your eyes.

 

[Orcish-Horde]

Last eclipse I remember seeing was in the late 70s, full eclipse that is.

 

[PhillyDee]

http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,29435.0.html
http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,29434.0.html

Couple of pics in there.

 

[Drawoh Tesremos]

Wait... i thought there wasn't going to be another solar eclipse in our lifetimes. like, the next thousand years?

or was that Total Eclipse...

There are total eclipses quite frequently. The trouble is, that they are only total in a narrow strip across one part of the earth. Anyone outside that narrow strip only sees a partial eclipse.

So today's, although total in one part of the earth, is only partial for us.

Within UK, as others have pointed out, the most recent total solar eclipse was in 1999, which I was lucky enough to see in Cornwall. My mother tells me that she saw the previous UK one when at school in the early 1920s. The next UK one is, I believe, more than a lifetime in the future, but nothing like a thousand years away.

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

I got a couple of pics, will upload later. You can see it from a webcam in China here
Click on "telescope only"

 

[Berserker]

The next UK one is, I believe, more than a lifetime in the future, but nothing like a thousand years away.

You never know, some of the younger members of this forum might see the next total eclipse in the UK.

September 23rd, 2090.

 

[maxilive]

Just clouds clouds clouds so I missed it

thanks for the links to the live streaming thing.

 

[fRostiE]

opes, missed it... hope i love to be 104 then

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Did anyone else used to find Bonnie Tyler singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" a little on the disturbing side? She was an odd one.

Um, so yeah.

 

[Snakedoctor]

opes, missed it... hope i love to be 104 then

That's a lot of love.

 

[Hilly]

There is a massive Eclipse next year, we'll see around 90% of it apparently and it's going to last for 6 1/2 minutes.

It will be around the west of American (California, LA e.t.c)

 

[Buffman]

wow , last eclipse i saw was in 1999 aug 11th at cornwall

I remember that, only because its my birthday though