Solar eclipse to plunge Britain into darkness - March 20th

[dirtychinchilla]

I'll be in my office teaching students.....the office has no windows so I won't get to see it

Take them out for a lesson! If anything, you should be allowed out on this sort of occasion due to the rarity of the event.

 

[valve90210]

Remember to stare directly at the eclipse for maximum effect.

Good advice!! I can still 'see' some of the last eclipse.... lol

 

[Cosimo]

About solar eclipses...

 

[John40]

Can't wait. I still remember standing outside my work building in 1999 watching the last total eclipse. It really brings home that we're standing on a rock moving through space with other large rocks

Same here, I remember doing the same. I was working at a prison at the time and we had some of the cons out on the yard to see it.

We told them to look at it in the large puddles on the yard but of course most didn't.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Except it will go dark.

Except it won't. Unless you're in the Faroes or somewhere. It needs to be 99% before you'll notice any significant light dimming and it won't disappear completely unless it hits 100%. Its very sudden. Was in south devon in '99 where it really did go dark... for a minute and a half. Spookiest thing ever.... and of course it was cloudy.

 

[Glaucus]

You can understand why pretty much ever civilisation had sun gods and there corresponding myths and tried to please them. It's a pretty big sight and we know what causes it, imagine it 5000 years ago. It must have been heart stopping.

 

[thep02]

Damn camoron and the tories can't even keep the sun on, these cutbacks have to stop!

 

[Cosimo]

How to make a solar filter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014hpkh

 

[arknor]

You'll be fine if you follow this:

http://www.britastro.org/eclipsesafety

all ways makes me wonder if in the oldern days everyone just went blind

 

[StriderX]

If your eyes are already ruined, does it matter?

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Guys, how much of the sun needs to be covered before you notice anything? It was overcast during the 1999 eclipse for me, so was hard to judge until near-totality. Stafford will be about 88% this time round.

 

[Trifid]

Well it's about time too!

 

[Christmas themed thank]

Daily Fail headline: "Solar eclipse made me blind!"

 

[markweatherill]

In other news, Labour has condemned Friday's planned solar eclipse and promised that, if elected, they would freeze solar eclipses until 2018.

 

[Cosimo]

Latest cloud cover forecast for tomorrow:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/uk-clou...&fcTime=1426798800&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.74

Looks like some will be lucky.

 

[Twirlywoos]

Any daily rags bundling in a solar filter today?

 

[dunker]

meh cloudy, typical

 

[Andreas.96]

Can't wait to see this, first one I'll ever see

 

[gambitt]

If I don't wake up with super powers I'm going to be disappointed.

 

[Freakbro]

I'm in the supposed cloud free zone, so here's hoping