Solar eclipse to plunge Britain into darkness - March 20th

TrixiBuG · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:11

Very excited for this now! Won the chance, through work, to watch it from a roof top garden in Manchester city centre in one of these:

Just need to find some glasses tonight!

Watched the last one from the top of a pool slide in France when I was a kid (I was on a family holiday)

MooMoo444 · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:13

Jacksonn said:
If you really want some i believe some papers are giving them away today.

Would you trust your eyesight to some mass produced tat thats free with the daily rag that costs 20p?

arknor · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:21

going to be loads of pillocks taking sun selfies

Django x2 · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:26

We had a blackout once. It's ok though, we found him again

Django x2 · 19 Mar 2015 at 16:28

shadow_boxer said:
No worries about clouds here. By 9.30 I'll be somewhere over English Channel or Northern France at 35,000 ft. Hopefully we'll see something.

No flights from the UK operate at 35k feet over the channel, or northern France, so yes, you might still have clouds

DJMK4 · 19 Mar 2015 at 17:30

So starting at 08:22 am in cardiff, is that GMT?

What the hell is UT

Glaucus · 19 Mar 2015 at 17:34

DJMK4 said:
So starting at 08:22 am in cardiff, is that GMT?

What the hell is UT

Coordinated Universal Time, that at the minute is the same as our clocks, until we change to stupid summer time.

DJMK4 · 19 Mar 2015 at 17:35

Glaucus said:
Universal time, that at the minute is the same as our clocks arm, until we change to stupid summer time.

OK so basically its the same as GMT, IE not plus or minus anything

So this will start like it says at 08:22UT or 08:22 GMT

Glaucus · 19 Mar 2015 at 17:36

smr · 19 Mar 2015 at 20:41

Cloudless skies in Leicestershire at 9am tomorrow all the way up to 2pm. Got my eclipse glasses :cool:

MooMoo444 · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:11

So at 90% eclipse is it gonna be dark driving to work tomorrow or wot?

Spook187 · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:13

Looks cloudy for me up north

wesley · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:28

how dark it'll be in up north liverpool?

V F · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:54

arknor said:
going to be loads of pillocks taking sun selfies

Lol, scarily sad isn't it.

Jokester · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:55

You won't likely see another eclipse of this magnitude in your lifetime again, so why not.

Jopabo · 19 Mar 2015 at 21:59

Jokester said:
You won't likely see another eclipse of this magnitude in your lifetime again, so why not.

Unless you pop over to the States on Aug 21st 2017, total eclipse across the county that day.

Jokester · 19 Mar 2015 at 22:00

Jopabo said:
Unless you pop over to the States on Aug 21st 2017, total eclipse across the county that day.

Yeah, but how many people will do that?

Jopabo · 19 Mar 2015 at 22:13

Jokester said:
Yeah, but how many people will do that?

Quite a lot I suspect, the USA is a popular tourist destination anyway.

RDM · 19 Mar 2015 at 22:13

Jokester said:
Yeah, but how many people will do that?

I know a few eclipse junkies that use it as an excuse to travel the world.

McBain · 19 Mar 2015 at 22:14

Spook187 said:
Looks cloudy for me up north

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